To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.

For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.

The impossible is the least that one can demand.

Because I was raised in a Christian culture I never considered myself to be a totally free human being.

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

I prefer sinners and madmen, who can learn, who can change, who can teach-or people like myself, if I may say so, who are not afraid to eat a lobster alone as they take on their shoulders the monumental weight of thirty years

There is no reason for you to try to become like white people and there is no basis whatever for their impertinent assumption that *they* must accept *you*. The really terrible thing, old buddy, is that you must accept them. And I mean that very seriously. You must accept them and accept them with love.