Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.

Such figures as Boy George do not disturb me nearly so much as do those relentlessly hetero (sexual?) keepers of the keys and seals, those who know what the world needs in the way of order and who are ready and willing to supply that order.

The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

If the word 'integration' means anything, this is what it means that we, with love, shall force our brothers to see themselves as they are, to cease fleeing from reality and begin to change it.

The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.

It is perfectly possible to be enamoured of Paris while remaining totally indifferent or even hostile to the French.

The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.