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Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces , boundaries, shape destinies , societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality , creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.

I speak to the black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition.

Man has the power to act as his own destroyer – and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.

Common sense is the genius of humanity.

Human requirements are the inspiration for art.

The highest revelation is that God is in every man.

Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.

I decline to accept the end of man.

People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.