Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners. – Benjamin Banneker
Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose courage at the sight of difficulties. – Benjamin Banneker
The colour of the skin is in no way connected with strength of the mind or intellectual powers. – Benjamin Banneker
I never can hear a crowd of people singing and gesticulating, all together, at an Italian opera, without fancying myself at Athens, listening to that particular tragedy, by Sophocles, in which he introduces a full chorus of turkeys, who set about bewailing the death of Meleager. – Edgar Allan Poe