I will no longer take anyone's word for my experience.

The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.

Somebody," said Jacques, "your father or mine, should have told us that not many people have ever died of love. But multitudes have perished, and are perishing every hour - and in the oddest places! - for the lack of it.

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

People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.

Sometimes you hear a person speak the truth and you know that they are speaking the truth. But you also know that they have not heard themselves, do not know what they have said: do not know that they have revealed much more than they have said. This may be why the truth remains, on the whole, so rare.

When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.