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

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

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

There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves. People are not, for example, terribly anxious to be equal (equal, after all, to what and to whom?) but they love the idea of being superior.

If you think too far ahead, if you even try to think too far ahead, you'll never make it.

Whatever you describe to another person is also a revelation of who you are and who you think you are. You can not describe anything without betraying your point of view, your aspirations, your fears, your hopes. Everything.

No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.