History is mostly guessing the rest is prejudice....

In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.

There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.

Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.

Every age has its own poetry in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.

I saw no African people in the printed and illustrated Sunday school lessons. I began to suspect at this early age that someone had distorted the image of my people. My long search for the true history of African people the world over began.