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

If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

People said that he was very nice, but I confess that his utter grotesqueness made me uneasy; perhaps in the same way that the sight of monkeys eating their own excrement turns some people’s stomachs. They might not mind so much if monkeys did not- so grotesquely- resemble human beings.

how can one respect, let alone adopt, the values of a people who do not, on any level whatever, live the way they say they do, or the way they say they should?

The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever.

No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it.