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

Rage can only with difficulty, and never entirely, be brought under the domination of the intelligence, and therefore is not susceptible to any arguments whatsoever.

I can't be a pessimist, because I am alive.

It is said that the camera cannot lie, but rarely do we allow it to do anything else, since the camera sees what you point it at: the camera sees what you want it to see.

You've got to tell the world how to treat you. If the world tells you how you are going to be treated, you are in trouble.

If one really wishes to know how justice is administered in a country, one does not question the policemen, the lawyers, the judges, or the protected members of the middle class. One goes to the unprotected - those, precisely, who need the law's protection most! - and listens to their testimony.

To be with God is really to be involved in some enormous, overwhelming desire, and joy, and power which you cannot control, which controls you.