There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.- Achievement brings its own anticlimax.
- All great achievements require time.
- All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.
- Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
- As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.
- At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.
- Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
- Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.
- Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.
- Effective action is always unjust.
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