No man is a devil in his own mind.

Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.

I love America more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually. I think all theories are suspect, that the finest principles may have to be modified, or may even be pulverized by the demands of life, and that one must find, therefore, one's own moral center and move through the world hoping that this center will guide one aright.

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

The occurrence of an event is not the same thing as knowing what it is that one has lived through.

Whatever you describe to another person is also a revelation of who you are and who you think you are. You can not describe anything without betraying your point of view, your aspirations, your fears, your hopes. Everything.

One writes out of one thing only - one's own experience.