Christianity has operated with an unmitigated arrogance and cruelty - necessarily, since a religion ordinarily imposes on those who have discovered the true faith the spiritual duty of liberating the infidels.

Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.

Whatever you describe to another person is also a revelation of who you are and who you think you are. You can not describe anything without betraying your point of view, your aspirations, your fears, your hopes. Everything.

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

To be black and conscious in America is to be in a constant state of rage.

This world is white no longer, and it will never be white again.

It is perfectly possible to be enamoured of Paris while remaining totally indifferent or even hostile to the French.