World Quotes

The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.

I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.

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 philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.

Don’t you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up?

While my life shifts from refugee camps to red carpets, I choose them both because these worlds can, in fact, coexist. And for me, they must.

This is my letter to the world that never wrote to me.

Most men in this world are colored. A belief in humanity means a belief in colored men. The future world will, in all reasonable probability, be what colored men make it.

Have you felt the bitterness of a world without hugs?

If God made this world, then I would not want to be the God. It is full of misery and distress that it breaks my heart.