"Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them."

"People who believe that they are white are not white. They are merely people who are trying to avoid the fact that they are human."

"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced."

"I was not a Negro. I was a Black man. And my country is not a country. It is a state of mind."

"The world is not a safe place. It never was."