People can cry much easier than they can change, a rule of psychology people like me picked up as kids on the street.

If one cannot risk oneself, then one is simply incapable of giving. And, after all, one can give freedom only by setting someone free.

I'm not interested in anybody's guilt. Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford. I know you didn't do it, and I didn't do it either, but I am responsible for it because I am a man and a citizen of this country and you are responsible for it, too, for the very same reason... Anyone who is trying to be conscious must begin to dismiss the vocabulary which we've used so long to cover it up, to lie about the way things are.

Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it.

I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.

No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.

Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black.