I care. I care about it all. It takes too much energy not to care.

That's what being eccentric means--being natural.

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.

Ball points belong to their age. They make everyone write alike.

Do I remain a revolutionary? Intellectually -- without a doubt. But am I prepared to give my body to the struggle or even my comforts? This is what I puzzle about.

[T]here is only one large circle that we march in, around and around, each of us with our own little picture -- in front of us -- our own little mirage that we think is the future.

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