"People can only live with their equals,..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“The public wishes itself to be managed like a woman; one must say nothing to it except what it likes to hear.”

“The decline in literature indicates a decline in the nation. The two keep pace in their downward tendency.”

“To blow is not to play on the flute; you must move the fingers.[Ger., Blasen ist nicht floten, ihr musst die Finger bewegen.]”

“I believe we can keep the promise of our founders, the idea that if you're willing to work hard, it doesn't matter who you are or where you come from or what you look like or who you love. It doesn't matter whether you're black or white or Hispanic or Asian or Native American or young or old or rich or poor, able, disabled, gay or straight, you can make it here in America if you're willing to try.”

“You don't stick a knife in a man's back nine inches and then pull it out six inches and say you're making progress ... No matter how much respect, no matter how much recognition, whites show towards me, as far as I am concerned, as long as it is not shown to everyone of our people in this country, it doesn't exist for me.”

“No one in America should ever be afraid to walk down the street holding the hand of the person they love.”

“No married woman ever trusts her husband absolutely, nor does she ever act as if she did trust him. Her utmost confidence is as wary as an American pickpocket's confidence that the policeman on the beat will stay bought.”

“Where can I find a man governed by reason instead of habits and urges?”

“Men felt a chill in their hearts; a damp in their minds. In a desperate effort to snuggle their feelings into some sort of warmth,one subterfuge was tried after anothersentences swelled, adjectives multiplied, lyrics became epics.”