I think Americans are terrified of feeling anything. I never met a people more infantile in my life.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

An American Negro, however deep his sympathies, or however bright his rage, ceases to be simply a black man when he faces a black man from Africa.

I really do believe in the New Jerusalem. I really do believe that we can all become better than we are. I know we can. But the price is enormous and people are not yet willing to pay it.

It is said that the camera cannot lie, but rarely do we allow it to do anything else, since the camera sees what you point it at: the camera sees what you want it to see.

Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.

We can make America what America must become.