If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.

If one cannot risk oneself, then one is simply incapable of giving. And, after all, one can give freedom only by setting someone free.

The male cannot bear very much humiliation; and he really cannot bear it, it obliterates him.

The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

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

An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.