There is no ache more Deadly than the striving to be oneself.

We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.

Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.

The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a foreigner in the country of his birth and reduce his basic human dignity.

He that is neither one thing nor the other has no friends.

Resolve to be thyself: and know, that he Who finds himself, loses his misery.

To its own impulse every creature stirs; Live by thy light, and earth will live by hers!

Some things are as they are regardless of what they were.

We wander but in the end there is always a certain peace in being what one is, in being that completely The condemned man has that joy

Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots?