The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.

By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.

Strangers are an endangered species.

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

The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.

Of troubles none is greater than to be robbed of one’s native land.

If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean.

No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation.

There are chance meetings with strangers that interest us from the first moment, before a word is spoken.

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

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.

“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.