I soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within. - Lillian E. Smith

None but the weak crave to be better than. Strong men are satisfied with their own strength.

When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new question, then it is time to die

The mother who taught me what I know of tenderness and love and compassion taught me also the bleak rituals of keeping Negroes in their 'place.' The father who rebuked me for an air of superiority toward schoolmates from the mill and rounded out his rebuke by gravely reminding me that 'all men are brothers,' trained me in the steel-rigid decorums I must demand of every colored male. They who so gravely taught me to split my body from my mind and both from my 'soul,' taught me also to split my conscience from my acts and Christianity from southern tradition.