A ghetto can be improved in one way only: out of existence.

One can only face in others what one can face in oneself.

Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore

You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself.

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.

We are responsible for the world in which we find ourselves, if only because we are the only sentient force which can change it.

The determination to outwit one's situation means that one has no models, only object lessons.