“A difficult journey is more revealing of character than any discussion or analysis.”

“...he found it difficult to discuss any of his activities, which seemed to him no more than the hole through which he was falling.”

“I do not say that there are no stronger men than these; but will any one say that there are any men stronger than those men of old who were dominated by their philosophy and steeped in their religion? Whether bondage be better than freedom may be discussed. But that their bondage came to more than our freedom it will be difficult for any one to deny.”

“There's more to blackness than bludgeoning people with memories of past atrocities and injustices or the discussion of how difficult it is to be black and deal with whites.”

“An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture”

“The land is so much more than its analysis.”