You cannot fix what you will not face.
To be black and conscious in America is to be in a constant state of rage.
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
To be with God is really to be involved in some enormous, overwhelming desire, and joy, and power which you cannot control, which controls you.
The place in which I'll fit will not exist until I make it.
I prefer sinners and madmen, who can learn, who can change, who can teach-or people like myself, if I may say so, who are not afraid to eat a lobster alone as they take on their shoulders the monumental weight of thirty years