what is lost because it is most precious what is most precious because it is lost

A rich man told me recently that a liberal is a man who tells other people what to do with their money.

If you are black, the only roads into the mainland of American life are through subservience, cowardice, and loss of manhood. These are the white man's roads.

James Brown and Frank Sinatra are two different quantities in the universe. They represent two different experiences of the world.

The torture of being the unseen object, and the constantly observed subject.

The attempt to divide art and politics is a bourgeois which says good poetry, art, cannot be political, but since everything is … political, even an artist or work that claims not to have any politics is making a political statement by that act.

A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.