It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream.

It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream.

It isn’t a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for.

Perhaps that is why desire causes men calamity. By identifying with our desires and taking them too seriously, we not only increase our susceptibility to disappointment, we actually create a climate inhospitable to the free and easy fulfillment of those desires.

All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes to make it possible.

For nearly a century, the South made itself believe that Negroes and white people were really communicating. So convinced of this were the white Southerners that they almost made the nation believe that they, and only they, knew the mind of the Southern Negro.