I think that the inability to love is the central problem, because that inability masks a certain terror, and that terror is the terror of being touched. And if you can't be touched, you can't be changed. And if you can't be changed, you can't be alive.

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

The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone.

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.

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.

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