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

I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.

American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.

You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don't live the only life you have, you won't live some other life, you won't live any life at all.

To be with God is really to be involved in some enormous, overwhelming desire, and joy, and power which you cannot control, which controls you.

Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.

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.