Take away the violence and who will hear the man of peace?

American straightforwardness is almost as disarming as Americans invariably think it is.

The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.

Though it be a thrilling and marvellous thing to be merely young and gifted in such times, it is doubly so - doubly dynamic - to be young, gifted and black.

I'm just tired of hearing about God all the time. What has He got to do with anything?... I'm not going to be immoral or commit crimes because I don't believe. I don't even think about that. I just get so tired of Him getting the credit for things the human race achieves through its own effort. Now, there simply is no God. There's only man. And it's he who makes miracles.

Obviously the most oppressed of any oppressed group will be its women

One cannot live with sighted eyes and feeling heart and not know and read of the miseries which affect the world.