Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.
I don't take drugs, I take books.
I am writing with my burnt hand about the nature of fire.
If we had the right words, if we had the language, we would need no weapons.
I myself am a person who has never resigned myself, who is absolutely never resigned, who can’t imagine it at all. I simply observe, and I observe in so many people, and often very quickly, a resignation that terrifies me, that’s it.
Silent night, holy night, when the bough flies from the tree and is hung everywhere, when from tables the crusts fly, when the gifts begin to tremble because lovelessness walks through the world, because it snarls at you, barks at you from the snow, and the silver ribbons rip and the tinsel rustles silvery, and the silver and gold, and a golden word come to you on which you choke because you have been sold and betrayed, and because it does not suffice that for you one is redeemed who once died.
For the facts that make up the world need the non-factual as a vantage point from which to be perceived.
The boundless capacity of the African American spirit in this country to say Hallelujah anyhow, to use our joy as a weapon, to use our creativity as a weapon, to use our moral clarity and our deep experience as a weapon not just to save Black people but to save all of these people.
Stop hating on yourself for not being perfect. If God wanted perfection, He would have made you an angel.
Master those books you have. Read them thoroughly. Bathe in them until they saturate you. Read and re-read them. . . digest them. . . a student will find that his mental constitution is more affected by one book thoroughly mastered than by 20 books he has merely skimmed.
I'm definitely the first no. 1 in the world since Fischer, and probably at least since Kasparov, who probably has the most potential to dominate for the foreseeable future.