The place in which I'll fit will not exist until I make it.

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.

Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.

Artists are here to disturb the peace.

People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction.

Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.

To be black and conscious in America is to be in a constant state of rage.

You cannot fix what you will not face.

One cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one's own.

I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do.

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

If in the first act you introduce a gun, by the third act you have to use it.

Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.

If I had listened to the critics I'd have died drunk in the gutter

Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.