“All are one.”

Man is on earth as in an egg.

Men that love wisdom must be acquainted with very many things indeed.

How can you hide from what never goes away?

There is nothing permanent except change.

You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.

Lifetime is a child at play, moving pieces in a game. Kingship belongs to the child.

Silence, healing.

The sun is new each day.

The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts.

All is flux, nothing stays still.

Eyes are more accurate witnesses than ears.

Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.

If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not find it; for it is hard to be sought out and difficult.

The universal cosmic process was not created by any god or man.

Religion is a disease, but it is a noble disease.

Allow yourself to think only those thoughts that match your principles and can bear the bright light of day.

I have low self-esteem and I always have. Guys always cheated on me with women who were European-looking. You know, the long-hair type. Really beautiful women that left me thinking, ‘How I can I compete with that?’ Being a regular black girl wasn’t good enough.

Oh Thou, who Man of baser Earth didst make, And ev’n with Paradise devise the snake; For all the Sin wherewith the Face of Man Is blackened – Man’s forgiveness give and take!

But when I see a story on welfare on television, they only show black people.

The shadow of a mighty Negro past flits through the tale of Ethiopia the shadowy and of the Egypt the Sphinx. Throughout history, the powers of single blacks flash here and there like falling stars, and die sometimes before the world has rightly gauged their brightness.

The concept of the black and white people boils down to: No light without darkness – You depend on each other!

I believe that all men, black and brown, and white, are brothers, varying, through Time and Opportunity, in form and gift and feature, but differing in no essential particular, and alike in soul and in the possibility of infinite development.

Nothing in the world is easier in the United States than to accuse a black man of crime.

Then that little man in black there, he says women can’t have as much rights as men, ’cause Christ wasn’t a woman! Where did your Christ come from? Where did Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him.