One can only face in others what one can face in oneself.

To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread.

Not only was I not born to be a slave; I was not born to hope to become the equal of the slave master.

When human rights are abused on a grand scale, the broth of purity boils and feeds the rebellion of a new order.

It is hard for anyone under twenty to realise that death has already assigned them a number, which is going to come up one day.

The great force of history comes from the fact that we carry it within us, are unconsciously controlled by it in many ways, and history is literally present in all that we do.

Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.