The future is like heaven-everyone exalts it but no one wants to go there now.

Recognizing a problem doesn't always bring a solution, but until we recognize that problem, there can be no solution.

People are continually pointing out to me the wretchedness of white people in order to console me for the wretchedness of blacks. But an itemized account of the American failure does not console me and it should not console anyone else. That hundreds of thousands of white people are living, in effect, no better than the "niggers" is not a fact to be regarded with complacency. The social and moral bankruptcy suggested by this fact is of the bitterest, most terrifying kind.

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

I love America more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.

No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.

Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours.