How is it possible to write one's autobiography in a world so fast-changing as this?

One day, may we all meet together in the light of understanding.

The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.

Right now, in every big city ghetto, tens of thousands of yesterday's and today's school dropouts are keeping body and soul together by some form of hustling in the same way I did.

So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.

I imagine that one of the biggest troubles with colleges is there are too many distractions, too much panty-raiding, fraternities, and boola-boola and all of that.

Never ask a woman about other men.Either she'll tell you a lie, and you still won't know, or if she tells you the truth, you might not have wanted to hear it in the first place.

He said, one time, that no true leader burdened his followers with a greater load than they could carry, and no true leader sets too fast a pace for his follows to keep up.

All of us - who might have probed space, or cured cancer, or built industries - were, instead, black victims of the white man's American social system.

Why am I as I am? To understand that of any person, his whole life, fromBirth must be reviewed. All of our experiences fuse into our personality. Everything that ever happened to us is an ingredient.

Always, every now and then, I had given her a hard time, just to keep her in line. Every once in a while a woman seems to need, in fact wants this too.

Those blue eyes that had stopped my heart the first time she looked at me found me in the crowd." -Cage

The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.

Studying economics is not a good preparation for dealing with it.

Every novelist should possess a hermaphroditic imagination.

It is sometimes easier to head an institute for the study of child guidance than it is to turn one brat into a decent human being.

It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk.

If I had cleared the trees and drove the green, it would've been a great shot.

Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable.

Science that fails to embrace all living beings is far more dangerous than any virus!

The town is as full as ever of 'characters,' all created by each other.