People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.

He may be a very nice man. But I haven't got the time to figure that out. All I know is, he's got a uniform and a gun and I have to relate to him that way. That's the only way to relate to him because one of us may have to die.

What passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one's heroic ancestors.

After my best friend jumped off the bridge, I knew that I was next. So-Paris. With forty dollars and a one-way ticket.

No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it.

If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.

You've got to tell the world how to treat you. If the world tells you how you are going to be treated, you are in trouble.