“I, the man of color, want only this: That the tool never possess the man. That the enslavement of man by man cease forever. That is, of one by another. That it be possible for me to discover and to love man, wherever he may be.”
“And ah for a man to arise in me,That the man I am may cease to be!”
“Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power.”
“The same passions in man and woman nonetheless differ in tempo; hence man and woman do not cease misunderstanding one another.”
“Man is not only that creature that forges tools, that reasons, and that walks upright. Man is the creature that looks up. Man praises.”
“No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.”