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

There is no reason for you to try to become like white people and there is no basis whatever for their impertinent assumption that *they* must accept *you*. The really terrible thing, old buddy, is that you must accept them. And I mean that very seriously. You must accept them and accept them with love.

But, when the chips are down, its better to be furious with someone you love, or frightened for someone you love, than be put through the merciless horror of being ashamed of someone you love.

There is no way of conveying to the corpse the reasons you have made him one--you have the corpse, and you are, thereafter, at themercy of a fact which missed the truth, which means that the corpse has you.

Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.

Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.

Yr crown has been bought and paid for. All you have to do is put it on yr head