I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

It is hard for anyone under twenty to realise that death has already assigned them a number, which is going to come up one day.

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.

The white man discovered the Cross by way of the Bible, but the black man discovered the Bible by way of the Cross.

It was as though we were a picture, trapped in time: this had been happening for hundreds of years, people sitting in a room, waiting for dinner, and listening to the blues.

Love is like the lightning, and your maturity is signaled by the extent to which you can accept the dangers and the power and the beauty of love.

We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet it is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.