Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in the order of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being.
As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
Human history is in essence a history of ideas.
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
Americans of our own time - minority and majority Americans alike - need the continued guidance that the Voting Rights Act provides. We have come a long way, but more needs to be done.
After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
There are four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. That’s four million solutions to the problem of staying alive.
Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
There is no come back to caves. We are too many.
It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.
Dignity does not consist in possessing honours, but in deserving them.
Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission
Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate...
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
A person's a person, no matter how small.
To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.
A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings.
There is no marvel in a woman learning to speak, but there would be in teaching her to hold her tongue.
I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.
