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

I will no longer take anyone's word for my experience.

When human rights are abused on a grand scale, the broth of purity boils and feeds the rebellion of a new order.

Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.

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

To defend oneself against a fear is simply to insure that one will, one day, be conquered by it; fears must be faced.

Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity