"To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time."

"The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions."

"The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide."

"The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated."

"I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly."

"There is a growing literature about the multitude of journalism's problems, but most of it is concerned with the editorial side of the business, possibly because most people competent to write about journalism are not comfortable writing about finance."

"The business of the advertiser is to see that we go about our business with some magic spell or tune or slogan throbbing quietly in the background of our minds."

"I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man."