To defend oneself against a fear is simply to insure that one will, one day, be conquered by it; fears must be faced.

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

The real victim of bigotry is the white man who hides his weakness under his myth of superiority.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.

I prefer sinners and madmen, who can learn, who can change, who can teach-or people like myself, if I may say so, who are not afraid to eat a lobster alone as they take on their shoulders the monumental weight of thirty years

There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.