At four o'clock in the morning, when everyone is drunk enough, then extraordinary things can happen.

If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.

In order to have a conversation with someone you must reveal yourself.

I am aware that no man is a villain in his own eyes.

The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land.

The miracle is that some have stepped out of the rags of the Republic's definition to assume the great burden and glory of their humanity and their responsibility for one another. It is an extraordinary achievement to be trapped in the dungeon of color and to dare to shake down its walls and to step out of it leaving the jailkeeper in the rubble.

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