Can't nothing heal without pain, you know.

I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer - its dust and lowering skies.

If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down.

The function of freedom is to free someone else.

Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.

There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race - scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct... it has a social function, racism.

There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.

If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent.

All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.

Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.

Maybe you have been looking for peace for no one but yourself.

I turn back to the Archers, who don’t look like the same species as us. Do they even sweat, these people?

Wherever I go, whomever I meet, I see myself in their eyes, because I am a part of everything, because I love.

Boredom is restlessness of the soul. It is an internal message reminding you that you're better than the stagnancy you've settled for.

A cat may looke on a King.

I think everybody needed to know what had happened to Emmett Till.

In a polite age almost every person becomes a reader, and receives more instruction from the Press than the Pulpit.

A system of morality that is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception that has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

No one is more dangerous than someone who thinks he has "The Truth". To be an atheist is almost as arrogant as to be a fundamentalist. But then again, I can get pretty arrogant.

when I live in you, then together we can live through everything that happens to you.