Whenever I'm in Glasgow I go and stand outside the front of the house I grew up in, which is in Mount Vernon.
If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
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.
Freedom-loving people around the world must say. . . I am a refugee in a crowded boat foundering off the coast of Vietnam. I am Laotian, a Cambodian, a Cuban, and a Miskito Indian in Nicaragua. I, too, am a potential victim of totalitarianism.
Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole.
My sister has decided to become an actress too. It has ruined the close-knittedness of our family life.
God wants us to become himself or herself or itself. We are growing toward Godhood. God is the goal of evolution.