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

What passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one's heroic ancestors. It's astounding to me, for example, that so many people really seem to believe that the country was founded by a band of heroes who wanted to be free.

You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. [and then you discover that others have suffered much more than you and your problems look good in comparison]

The real victim of bigotry is the white man who hides his weakness under his myth of superiority.

I am aware that no man is a villain in his own eyes.

If you're afraid to die, you will not be able to live.

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