"Dissatisfaction with possession and achievement is one of the requisites to further achievement."

"If money, education, and honesty will not bring to me as much privilege, as much equality as they bring to any American citizen, then they are to me a curse, and not a blessing."

"We must get beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths... and tell the world the glories of our journey."

"We have sat on the river bank and caught catfish with pin hooks. The time has come to harpoon a whale."

"I grew up thinking that you were supposed to read and write all your waking hours."

"One feels the excitement of hearing an untold story."