"The cold blast at the casement beats; The window-panes are white; The snow whirls through the empty streets; It is a …"

"When the night-wind bewaileth the fall of the year, And sweeps from the forest the leaves that are sere; I wake from …"

"When will the Americans learn, that if they would encourage liberty in other countries, they must practice it at home?"

". But because they are in some ways the beneficiaries of racism-they are racists!"

"A free-wheeling conversation with Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee 9 March, 2021"

"the dreams stay in my head, they haunt me, they push me and become a kick to my consciousness, making me act"

"I don't know who I would be if I weren't this child from Harlem, this woman from Harlem. It's in me so deep"

"It occurred to me that being what they call 'colored,' being a Negro, was some kind of a disadvantage"

"I never thought about myself as an activist when we were coming along"

"I love the people I love. I didn't care whether they could be a Democrat, Republican, communist ... anything but a ra…"