But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

We are responsible for the world in which we find ourselves, if only because we are the only sentient force which can change it.

No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.

My friend was about to introduce me when she looked at me and smiled and said, "Whose little boy are you?"

You write in order to change the world.

History is not a procession of illustrious people. It's about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about.

Not only was I not born to be a slave; I was not born to hope to become the equal of the slave master.