The hero is no braver than the ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every artist wants his work to be permanent. But what is The Aswan Dam covered some of the greatest art in the world. Venice is sinking. Great books and pictures were lost in the Florence floods. In the meantime we still enjoy butterflies.
Romare Beardon
I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
Ralph Ellison
Ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
James Baldwin
The past is not dead. In fact, it's not even past.