Talent is the ability to say things well, but genius is the ability to, well, say things.
Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds
Talent is some one faculty unusually developed; genius commands all the faculties.
What is genius? It is the power to be a boy again at will.
If but a few live coals are found in a mountain of ashes, no one should be disappointed. Genius is a rare quality in this world, and there is no reason why it should be more ubiquitous among Blacks than Whites.
Genius in one grand particular is like life. We know nothing of either but by their effects.
