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.

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

The impossible is the least that one can demand.

There is no reason for you to try to become like white people and there is no basis whatever for their impertinent assumption that *they* must accept *you*. The really terrible thing, old buddy, is that you must accept them. And I mean that very seriously. You must accept them and accept them with love.

All of Africa will be free before we can get a lousy cup of coffee.

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

You go into a book and you're in the dark, really. You go in with a certain fear and trembling. You know one thing. You know you will not be the same person when this voyage is over. But you don't know what's going to happen to you between getting on the boat and stepping off.