Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.

It is perfectly possible to be enamoured of Paris while remaining totally indifferent or even hostile to the French.

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.

It seems to be typical of life in America ... that the second generation has no time to talk to the first.

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 great force of history comes from the fact that we carry it within us, are unconsciously controlled by it in many ways, and history is literally present in all that we do.

There are people in the world for whom "coming along" is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.