Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex. You thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did. - James Baldwin

White people...have quite enough to do in learning how to accept and love themselves and each other, and when they have achieved this — which will not be tomorrow and may very well be never — the Negro problem will no longer exist, for it will no longer be needed.

You write in order to change the world ... if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.

Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.