Recognizing a problem doesn't always bring a solution, but until we recognize that problem, there can be no solution.

Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.

An identity is questioned only when it is menaced, as when the mighty begin to fall, or when the wretched begin to rise, or when the stranger enters the gates, never, thereafter, to be a stranger.

The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.

To be black and conscious in America is to be in a constant state of rage.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it.