I know that sometimes people fake on each other out of genuine motives to hold onto the object of their tenderest feelings. They see themselves as so inadequate that they feel forced to wear a mask in order to continuously impress the other. I do not want to "hold" you, I want you to "stay" out of your own need for me.

You don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.

The most revolutionary statement in history is "Love thine enemy

I have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die.

The object is for everyone to do their own thing, but the thing is to make one's thing the Revolution.

What America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind.

And why does it make you sad to see how everything hangs by such thin and whimsical threads? Because you’re a dreamer, an incredible dreamer, with a tiny spark hidden somewhere inside you which cannot die, which even you cannot kill or quench and which tortures you horribly because all the odds are against its continual burning. In the midst of the foulest decay and putrid savagery, this spark speaks to you of beauty, of human warmth and kindness, of goodness, of greatness, of heroism, of martyrdom, and it speaks to you of love.