The price of culture is a Lie. - W. E. B. Du Bois

But art is not simply works of art; it is the spirit that knows Beauty, that has music in its being and the color of sunsets in its headkerchiefs; that can dance on a flaming world and make the world dance, too.

The white economic and political elite often failed to recognize blacks as American, just as blacks often failed to recognize their potential for advancement outside of the limited opportunities afforded them by whites.

There is in this world
No such force as the force of
A person determined to rise.

The human soul
Cannot be permanently chained.