From Spiritual Directions of Diadochus of Photiki
When you're writing you're trying to find out something which you don't know.
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.
If fortune torments me, hope contents me.
Action is the normal completion of the act of will which begins as prayer. That action is not always external, but it is always some kind of effective energy.
You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.
Science fiction is an extension of science.