There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.

I was in his hands, he called me by the thunder at my ear. I was in his hands: I was being changed; all that I could do was cling to him. I did not realize, until I realized it, that I was also kissing him, that everything was breaking and changing and turning in me and moving toward him.

It seems to be typical of life in America ... that the second generation has no time to talk to the first.

Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black.

Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.

There was no room in God's army for the coward heart, no crown awaiting him who put mother or father, sister or brother, sweetheart or friend above God's will. Let the church cry amen to this!

True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one's life