Drive to the heart of every answer and expose the question the answer hides.

One can only face in others what one can face in oneself.

Our dehumanization of the Negro then is indivisible from our dehumanization of ourselves; the loss of our own identity is the price we pay for our annulment of his.

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be

Unless a writer is extremely old when he dies, in which case he has probably become a neglected institution, his death must always seem untimely.

If you're treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real they're real for you whether they're real or not.

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