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

Remember, to hate, to be violent, is demeaning. It means you're afraid of the other side of the coin -- to love and be loved.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

It seems to be typical of life in America ... that the second generation has no time to talk to the first.

There was no room in God's army for the coward heart, no crown awaiting him who put mother or father, sister or brother, sweetheart or friend above God's will. Let the church cry amen to this!

We do not trust educated people and rarely, alas, produce them, for we do not trust the independence of mind which alone makes a genuine education possible.

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