If all you want to do is make money, the very last thing you need is imagination.

Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection and to transform their moral contradictions, or public discussion of such contradictions, into a proud decoration, such as are given for heroism on the field of battle.

Recognizing a problem doesn't always bring a solution, but until we recognize that problem, there can be no solution.

Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt.

The wretched of the earth do not decide to become extinct, they resolve, on the contrary, to multiply: life is their weapon against life, life is all that they have.

The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever.

Hatred destroys the person who hates.