Not only was I not born to be a slave; I was not born to hope to become the equal of the slave master.

A man's balance depends on the weight he carries between his legs.

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.

The trick is to love somebody.... If you love one person, you see everybody else differently.

We are responsible for the world in which we find ourselves, if only because we are the only sentient force which can change it.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.