My potential is more than can be expressed within the bounds of my race or ethnic identity.

You've got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing.

That's something that I think is within the bounds of the laws and regulations there are, but still I think it really is a first in American politics.

You are ambitious, which, within reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm.

To speak pidgin to a Negro makes him angry, because he himself is a pidgin-nigger-talker. But, I will be told, there is no wish, no intention to anger him. I grant this; but it is just this absence of wish, this lack of interest, this indifference, this automatic manner of classifying him, imprisoning him, primitivizing him, decivilizing him, that makes him angry.

If a man who speaks pidgin to a man of color or an Arab does not see anything wrong or evil in such behavior, it is because he has never stopped to think.

Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.