What tyranny could exceed a tyranny that dictates to the human heart?

To begin is no more agony than opening your hand.

Freedom is indivisible, and either we are working for freedom or you are working for the sake of your self-interests and I am working for mine.

Body and soul, Black America reveals the extreme questions of contemporary life, questions of freedom and identity: How can I be who I am?

I am the history of the rejection of who I am

Let me just say, at once: I am not now nor have I ever been a white man. And, leaving aside the joys of unearned privilege, this leaves me feeling pretty good.

My heart is not peripheral to me.