Each generation must discover its mission, fulfill it or betray it, in relative opacity.

When we revolt it’s not for a particular culture. We revolt simply because, for many reasons, we can no longer breathe.

Wealth is not the fruit of labor but the result of organized protected robbery.

Violence is a cleansing force. It frees the native from his inferiority complex and from his despair and inaction; it makes him fearless and restores his self-respect

Imperialism leaves behind germs of rot which we must clinically detect and remove from our land but from our minds as well.

A government or a party gets the people it deserves and sooner or later a people gets the government it deserves.

What matters is not to know the world but to change it.

To educate the masses politically is to make the totality of the nation a reality to each citizen. It is to make the history of the nation part of the personal experience of each of its citizens.

He who is reluctant to recognize me opposes me.

The oppressed will always believe the worst about themselves.

The Negro enslaved by his inferiority, the white man enslaved by his superiority alike behave in accordance with a neurotic orientation.

You may want the alpha, but the alpha has his pick.

A gift.A gift from a queen who had seen another woman in hell and thought to reach back a hand. With no thought of it ever being returned. A moment of kindness, a tug on a thread.

I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst take the risk.

You have to get to know your voice and its strengths and play on those. It took me quite a long time.

Whoever appears to have much cunning has in reality very little; being deficient in the essential article, which is, to hide cunning.

I don't go to fast food restaurants anymore. That's out.

Srikkanth is a vegetarian. If he swallows a fly, he will be in trouble

Most of the volcanoes are pretty far away. You have to go to, God knows, Alaska. Or you have to go to the Southern Indies or you have to go to a specific island.

Grace me no grace, nor uncle me no uncle.

Writers can write to affirm and to celebrate, or they can write to debunk and destroy; the choice is ours.