“Talk about it only enough to do it. Dream about it only enough to feel it. Think about it only enough to understand it. Contemplate it only enough to be it.” Advocating action and embodiment over mere contemplation · Aphorisms / writings Action Being Contemplation
“There is no such thing as happiness. Life bends joy and pain, beauty and ugliness, in such a way that no one may isolate them.” On the inseparability of contrasting elements in experience · Writings / aphorisms Contrast Happiness Life
“I am of no particular race. I am of the human race, a man at large in the human world, preparing a new race.” Rejecting fixed racial categories for a broader human identity · Essentials (1931) Humanity Identity Race
“I am not a Negro. I am not a white man. I am a man.” Rejecting racial categories in favour of a wider human identity · Letter / personal statement, as commonly attributed Identity Truth
