Man cannot live by profit alone.

You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.

If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.

Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.

It is dangerous to be an American Negro male. America has never wanted its Negroes to be men, and does not, generally, treat them as men. It treats them as mascots, pets, or things.

The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.

All racists are irresponsible.