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

And love will simply have no choice but to go into battle with space and time, and furthermore, to win.

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 American idea of racial progress is measured by how fast I become white.

Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.

Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.

You cannot fix what you will not face.