"I am ashamed to see what a..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The dead sleep in their moonless night; my business is with the living.”

“Human beings cannot endure the geological chaos they encounter under the soil of their own gardens.”

“Meek young men grow up in libraries.”

“The world always had the same bankrupt look, to foregoing ages as to us.”

“X is not my real name. But if you study history, you'll find why no Black man in the Western Hemisphere knows his real name. Some of his ancestors kidnapped our ancestors from Africa and took us into the Western Hemisphere and sold us there, and our names were stripped from us and so today we don't know who we really are. I am one of those who admit it, and so I just put X up there to keep from wearing his name.”

“All the people who fought for freedom were my heroes. I mean, that was the sort of story I liked reading... freedom struggles and so on.”

“The right eloquence needs no bell to call the people together, and no constable to keep them.”

“It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.”

“It is through the idealism of youth that man catches sight of truth, and in that idealism he possesses a wealth which he must never exchange for anything else.”