I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.

The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.

If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.

Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.

Freedom lurked around us and I understood, at last, that he could help us be free if we would listen, that he would never be free until we did.

Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings.

The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever.