If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it..

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose..

Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my compa….

You got to go there to know there..

I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my….

Silence is all the genius a fool has..

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place..

If writers were too wise, perhaps no books would get written at all. It might be better to ask yourself 'Why?”'afterwards than before There is no ago….

There's two things everybody got to find out for themselves: they got to find out about love, and they got to find out about living. Now, love is lik….

If you haven't got it, you can't show it. If you have got it, you can't hide it..

I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions..

All my skinfolk ain't kinfolk..

Learning without wisdom is a load of books on a donkey's back..

I maintain that I have been a Negro three times--a Negro baby, a Negro girl and a Negro woman. Still, if you have received no clear cut impression of….

The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell..

I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all. I do not belong to the ….

Once you wake up thought in a man, you can never put it to sleep again..

Everybody has some special road of thought along which they travel when they are alone to themselves. And his road of thought is what makes every man….

Bitterness is the coward's revenge on the world for having been hurt..

There are years that ask questions and years that answer..

I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her..