We are very cruelly trapped between what we would like to be and what we actually are. And we cannot possibly become what we would like to be until we are willing to ask ourselves just why the lives we lead on this continent are mainly so empty, so tame, and so ugly.

The greatest significance of the present student generation is that it is through them that the point of view of the subjugated is finally and inexorably being expressed.

The interior life is a real life, and the intangible dreams of people have a tangible effect on the world.

A devotion to humanity is... too easily equated with a devotion to a Cause, and Causes, as we know, are notoriously bloodthirsty.

A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.

It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.

The real victim of bigotry is the white man who hides his weakness under his myth of superiority.