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

Words have users, but as well, users have words. And it is the users that establish the world's realities.

God is man idealized.

The African, because of the violent differences between what was native and what he was forced to in slavery, developed some of the most complex and complicated ideas about the world imaginable.

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

I guess I was the most unbohemian of all bohemians. My bohemianism consisted of not wanting to get involved with the stupid stuff that I thought people wanted you to get involved with - ... namely America... Dwight Eisenhower, McCarthyism and all those great things.

There is no justice in America, but it is the fight for justice that sustains you