The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.

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.

The most revolutionary statement in history is "Love thine enemy

History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.

I have lived those lines and I know that if I had not been apprehended I would have slit some white throats.

With all its faults, the American political system is the freest and most democratic in the world.

The racist conscience of America is such that murder does not register as murder really, unless the victim is white... blacks knew that white blood is the coin of freedom in a land where for four hundred years black blood has been shed unremarked and with impunity.