Where we find echoes, we generally find emptiness and hollowness; it is the contrary with the echoes of the heart.
A man's balance depends on the weight he carries between his legs.
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
Ask any Mexican, any Puerto Rican, any black man, any poor person - ask the wretched how they fare in the halls of justice, and then you will know, not whether or not the country is just, but whether or not it has any love for justice, or any concept of it. It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do.
I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
To be black and conscious in America is to be in a constant state of rage.
The wisdom of the appearance of the spirit in the body is this: the human spirit is a Divine Trust, and it must traverse all conditions, for its passage and movement through the conditions of existence will be the means of its acquiring perfections.
History gets reinterpreted as time goes on. Many times, the participants are lost in the retelling of the story.
I think it's up to the parents to determine whether what they're doing is consigning their child to difficulty. It's not as though they were crippling their children after they were born.
I'll tell you what bravery really is. Bravery is just determination to do a job that you know has to be done.