It demands great spiritual resilience not to hate the hater whose foot is on your neck, and an even greater miracle of perception and charity not to teach your child to hate.

The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.

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

No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.

A society must assume that it is stable, but the artist must know, and he must let us know, that there is nothing stable under heaven.

The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.

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!