A man was the sum of his limits; freedom only made him see how much so.
I hate to generalize because there are always so many exceptions to any rule.
The independents are the ones who tend to commit suicide. I'm not against this way of being in the world. Individuals have brought us many treasures. You can't just say that's a bad way of being in the world - it's not. But it's not everyone's way of being in the world.
Whatever I do in life, I'm almost always aware that there's another way to do it.
There's nothing about interdependence that would keep somebody from making art.
A white person was by definition somebody. Other people needed, across their hearts, one steel rib.