We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with.

There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'

There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

Condemn me, it does not matter: history will absolve me.

If any one owe a debt for a loan, and a storm prostrates the grain, or the harvest fail, or the grain does not grow for lack of water; in that year he need not…

I always said if I lived to get grown and had a chance, I was going to try to get something for my mother and I was going to do something for the black man of …