Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it.

The noblest kind of retribution is not to become like your enemy.

All men naturally hate each other. We have used concupiscence as best we can to make it serve the common good, but this is mere sham and a false image of charity, for essentially it is just hate.

Strangers are an endangered species.

Nothing is more narrow-minded than chauvinism or racial hatred. To me all men are equal; there are flatheads everywhere and I despise them all equally.

Africa has her mysteries, and even a wise man cannot understand them. But a wise man respects them.

Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

I want to be the white man’s brother, not his brother-in-law.

Such then is the human state, that to wish greatness for one’s country is to wish harm to one’s neighbors.

The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow man.

The misfortune of the man of color is having been enslaved. The misfortune and inhumanity of the white man are having killed man somewhere.

All of life is a foreign country.