"The price one pays for refusing to play the game is that one is not heard."

"One of the things that I think makes me a good writer is that I'm a good listener."

"Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be."

"The world is full of people who are trying to find themselves."

"The great difficulty, and that which makes the American Negro's experience unique, is that he has been forced to make his journey alone."