I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life. To put to rout all that was not life. And not, when I had come to die, discover that I had not lived.

受过良好教育的黑人在就业市场方面比受过良好教育的白人有着巨大的优势。有时黑人可能会认为他们没有这个优势...我曾经说过一次，即使是我自己，如果我重新投胎，也想成为一个受过良好教育的黑人，因为我相信他们确实有实际的优势。