"Our civility, England determines the style of,..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Any extraordinary degree of beauty in man or woman involves a moral charm.”

“If you cannot be free be as free as you can.”

“The quality of the thought differences the Egyptian and the Roman, the Austrian and the American.”

“Open the doors of opportunity to talent and virtue and they will do themselves justice, and property will not be in bad hands.”

“No community has ever yet passed beyond the initial phases in which its pugnacity and fanaticism enabled it to found a nation, and its cupidity to establish and develop a commercial civilization.”

“The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.”

“Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.”

“I did not disregard my culture, if I did, it was the white American culture, and I accepted my true culture, when I accepted Mohammed Ali, because this is a black name, Islam is the black man's religion, and so I would like to say, that I would like to clarify that point that I reclaimed my real culture, and that's being a black man and wearing a black name with a black body, and not a white name, so I would never say that I didn't disown my culture.”

“Literature is a comprehensive essence of the intellectual life of a nation.”