
Life is a short walk. There is so little time and so much living to achieve. —
John Oliver Killens

The Negro loves America enough to criticize her fundamentally. Most white Americans simply can't be bothered. —
John Oliver Killens

My fight is not for racial sameness but for racial equality and against racial prejudice and discrimination. —
John Oliver Killens

the houses much smaller and meek and timid and nondescript, and even the trees were scantily clad. —
John Oliver Killens

Western man wrote "his" history as if it were the history of the entire human race. —
John Oliver Killens