"At present our only true names are..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“The commonest and cheapest sounds, as the barking of a dog, produce the same effect on fresh and healthy ears that the rarest music does. It depends on your appetite for sound. Just as a crust is sweeter to a healthy appetite than confectionery to a pampered or diseased one.”

“I suppose you think that persons who are as old as your father and myself are always thinking about very grave things, but I know that we are meditating the same old themes that we did when we were ten years old, only we go more gravely about it.”

“You must not blame me if I do talk to the clouds.”

“I'm very proud to be black, but black is not all I am. That's my cultural historical background, my genetic make-up, but it's not all of who I am nor is it the basis from which I answer every question.”

“Europe will never be like America. Europe is a product of history. America is a product of philosophy.”

“The people made me from the littlest crack head to the biggest baller so if i am bad its because of the bay and if i am good its because of the bay”

“We torment ourselves rather to make it appear that we are happy than to become so.”

“Real affection comes from the face. Those political leaders, when they meet, they are always hugging, but not very genuine. Deep, sincerity comes from face and eye.”

“If we are nonviolent through and through, our nonviolence would have been self-evident.”