I am aware that no man is a villain in his own eyes.

People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction.

It is a terrible, an inexorable, law that one cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one's own: in the face of one's victim, one sees oneself.

It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.

Whoever debases others is debasing himself.

At bottom, to be colored means that one has been caught in some utterly unbelievable cosmic joke, a joke so hideous and in such bad taste that it defeats all categories and definitions.

Experience, which destroys innocence, also leads one back to it.