People can cry much easier than they can change.

School curricula that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians

If you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.

You don't realize that you're intelligent until it gets you into trouble.

The reason people think it's important to be white is that they think it's important not to be black.

This world is white no longer, and it will never be white again.

If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.

In order to have a conversation with someone you must reveal yourself.

I conceive of God, in fact, as a means of liberation and not a means to control others.

Drive to the heart of every answer and expose the question the answer hides.

Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours.

God be thanked for books! They are the voices of the distant and the dead.

The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.

every human being is an unprecedented miracle.

The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.

Color is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.

The hope of the world lies in what one demands, not of others, but of oneself.

The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.

It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.