"The sun will shine on those who stand before it shines on those who kneel under them."

"The past is never dead. It's not even past."

"A man's value is not in what he owns, but in what he is."

"The white man has a religion of his own, which he brought to us. We have our own religion. We should not abandon our own for his."

"Every generation must discover its mission, fulfill it or betray it, in relative opacity."