It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.

I am aware that no man is a villain in his own eyes.

If all you want to do is make money, the very last thing you need is imagination.

I was in his hands, he called me by the thunder at my ear. I was in his hands: I was being changed; all that I could do was cling to him. I did not realize, until I realized it, that I was also kissing him, that everything was breaking and changing and turning in me and moving toward him.

Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black.

Great art can only be created out of love.

A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.