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

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.

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

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

You cannot fix what you will not face.

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.

We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.

It is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in life.

A man and a woman marry because both of them do not know what to do with themselves.