I never had the chutzpah to just come to L. A. and make it. I didn't have that confidence. I'm always surprised when I get a job.
No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.
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.
I'm the worst tweeter ever. I don't know what I'm doing. I really don't.
Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that.
To be heroic is to be courageous enough to die for something.
Reckless, outrageous and undignified behavior has become excused and countenanced as telling it like it is when it is actually just reckless, outrageous and undignified. And when such behavior emanates from the top of our government, it is something else. It is dangerous to a democracy.