The wind and the sun are free.
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.
You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you.
There is no such thing as unfortunate genius; if a man or woman is fit for work, God appoints the field.
No man, however benevolent, liberal, and wise, can use a large fortune so that it will do half as much good in the world as it would if it were divided into moderate sums and in the hands of workmen who had earned it by industry and frugality. The piling up of estates often does great and conspicuous good. . . . But no man does with accumulated wealth so much good as the same amount would do in many hands.
I'd like the kind of love that lasts forever. It doesn't matter if it's plain,it doesn't matter if it's ugly. It just has to be there.
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