"Imagination transcends reality."
Imagination
"Technology is a double-edged sword."
Technology
"Music expresses what words cannot."
Music
"Faith is action."
Faith
"Work defines us."
Work
"Solitude teaches self-knowledge."
Solitude
"Relationships demand honesty."
Relationships
"Motivation comes from within."
Motivation
"Inspiration is rare and precious."
Inspiration
"War reveals human nature."
War
"I am invisible, not because of any biochemical accident, but because of the peculiar disposition of the eyes of those with whom I come in contact."
Freedom
"I went to the white college in the South, which had been founded for Negro education."
Education
"Being invisible and without substance, a disembodied voice, as it were, what else could I do?"
Power
"The world in which I lived was without substance, a dream."
Philosophy
"I had been looking for myself all my life."
Wisdom
"Who knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I speak for you?"
Truth
"Perhaps that is our greatest tragedy."
Philosophy
"I accept their rejection and go on."
Perseverance
"The reality of experience is important."
Wisdom
"I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves."
Courage
"All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was."
Freedom
"I was their man, but I was also myself."
"America is woven of many strands. I believe they must be woven together."
Hope
"My invisibility, understand, means the outer world takes no cognizance of it."
Philosophy
"I was never more hated than when I tried to be honest."
Truth
"The mind that has conceived a plan of living must never lose sight of the chaos against which that pattern was conceived."
Wisdom
"I did not feel any sense of shame or regret."
Courage
"I was always inclined to hope."
Hope
"I had been a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids."
Strength
"You accept what authority tells you to accept."
Truth