Life Has Its Pains And Evils-its Bitter

The Cost Of Liberty Is Less Than The Price Of Repression.

Begin With Art, Because Art Tries To Take Us Outside Ourselves. It Is A Matter Of Trying To Create An Atmosphere And Context So Conversation Can Flow Back And Forth And We Can Be Influenced By Each Other.

The History Of The American Negro Is The History Of This Strife, - This Longing To Attain Self-conscious Manhood, To Merge His Double Self Into A Better And Truer Self. In This Merging He Wishes Neither Of The Older Selves To Be Lost... He Simply Wishes To Make It Possible For A Man To Be Both A Negro And An American.

America Is Not Another Word For Opportunity To All Her Sons.

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 The Possibility Of Infinite Development.