When they kept you out it was because you were black; when they let you in, it is because you are black. That's progress?

In a great gasp, puts her head in her hands again and cries as if her throat were a cave, as if the howling winds came from her belly, she cries like a storm that will never end.

Losing the future is the best thing that ever happened to me.

you can't equate passive dependent power with assertive power because the dependent kind isn't fun, it doesn't give you a kick, it just allows you to survive.

I believe that all human beings are equal. I believe that no one has the right to authority over anyone else.

there's no justice, there's only love.

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.