Democracy requires that if you who don't like the outcome of elections you have to tolerate it and then pursue your interest the next time around.

You plant twenty coconut trees over here, and twenty coconut trees over there, and you water this batch and don't water that batch. Of the batch you water, nineteen will survive and one will die. Of the batch you don't water, nineteen will die and one will survive.

Where does a black soul go to rest?

We all have to die, and I preferred to have just one death. It seems to me that to suffer insult without response is to die many deaths.

Something is very, very wrong with American culture. The signs are everywhere. I think the country is in almost terminal descent.

I'm aware that because America is so powerful - with its tentacles reaching out to the world - one doesn't escape it by leaving. This is the most dangerous and disturbing time in my life.

We've been taught in America that big is best. That's why people have to believe that they must live in the greatest country in the world, which is absolutely idiotic.