Experience is a private, very largely speechless affair.

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

James Joyce is right about history being a nightmare-- but it may be that nightmare from which no one can awaken. People are trapped in history and history in trapped in them.

Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity

Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.

You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself.

The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.