You can't talk about solving the economic problem of the Negro without talking about billions of dollars. You can't talk about ending the slums without first saying profit must be taken out of the slums. You're really tampering and getting on dangerous ground because you are messing with folk then. You are messing with captains of industry. Now this means that we are treading in difficult water, because it really means that we are saying that something is wrong with capitalism.

Any car which holds together for a whole race is too heavy.

The most lively thought is still inferior to the dullest sensation.

Nothing can be by itself alone, no one can be by himself or herself alone, everyone has to inter-be with every one else. That is why, when you look outside, around you, you can see yourself.

Men always try to make virtues of their weaknesses. Fear of death and fear of life both become piety.

The judge is not the knight-errant, roaming at will in pursuit of his own ideal of beauty or of goodness.