A child cannot be taught by someone who despises him.

"The secret lies, I think, in his intimate knowledge of the people he is addressing be they black or white, and in the forthrightness with which he speaks of those things which hurt and baffle them. . . . He allows them their self-respect. . ."

"Where there is no vision, the people perish."

"When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living."

"Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt."