It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.
“A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.”
“What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so deep that I wonder if every white man in this country, when he plants a tree, doesn't see Negroes hanging from its branches.”