All of Africa will be free before we can get a lousy cup of coffee.

Sometimes you hear a person speak the truth and you know that they are speaking the truth. But you also know that they have not heard themselves, do not know what they have said: do not know that they have revealed much more than they have said. This may be why the truth remains, on the whole, so rare.

The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly.

Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word "love" here not merely in the personal sense but as a state of being, or a state of grace - not in the infantile American sense of being made happy but in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth.

The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.

Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.

The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others.