People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state on innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster.

The hope of the world lies in what one demands, not of others, but of oneself.

People who have been wronged will attempt to right the wrong; they would not be people if they didn't. They can rarely afford to be scrupulous about the means they will use. They will use such means as come to hand. Neither, in the main, will they distinguish one oppressor from another, nor see through to the root principle of their oppression.

There is something terribly radical about believing that one's own experience and images are important enough to speak about, much less to write about and to perform

Christianity has operated with an unmitigated arrogance and cruelty - necessarily, since a religion ordinarily imposes on those who have discovered the true faith the spiritual duty of liberating the infidels.

In order to have a conversation with someone you must reveal yourself.

I think Americans are terrified of feeling anything. I never met a people more infantile in my life.