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

The purpose of education...is to create in a person the ability to look at the world for himself, to make his own decisions.

There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.

Love is like the lightning, and your maturity is signaled by the extent to which you can accept the dangers and the power and the beauty of love.

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.

The future is like heaven-everyone exalts it but no one wants to go there now.

It is a terrible, an inexorable, law that one cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one's own: in the face of one's victim, one sees oneself.