For anyone who is not white in America, the affronts are virtually across the board.

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.

Where does a black soul go to rest?

Bush has done more to create passions for what they call terror than any other Administration in this nation's history. I get rather afraid when the most powerful man in the world talks to, and gets answers back from, God.

I got a chance to be in a society where the barriers between classes - social and economic - are not insuperable, where money is not everything all the time.

I think people involved with institutions find it harder to know the time to go than the time to come.

I never met a white person till I was a grown man. I never went to school with a white till I was twenty-six years old, at Harvard Law School. The insult of segregation was searing and unforgettable. It has left a great scar, and will be with me for the rest of my life.