White people will have quite enough to do in learning how to accept and love themselves and each other, and when they have achieved this - which will not be tomorrow and may very well be never - the Negro problem will no longer exist, for it will no longer be needed.

We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.

Unless a writer is extremely old when he dies, in which case he has probably become a neglected institution, his death must always seem untimely.

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.

There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.

The trick is to love somebody.... If you love one person, you see everybody else differently.