"I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peak of the mountain and shouted for joy."

"White people are not the problem. It is the problem of white people that they think they are the problem."

"Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose."

"Gods always behave like the people who created them."

"You can be a good citizen and still be a Negro."