However painful it may be for me to accept this conclusion, I am obliged to state it: for the black man there is only one destiny. And it is white.

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

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

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.

Why does a man destroy himself or what destroys him? I would have to judge that suicide is mostly the tool of the thinking man. The right to suicide should be the same as the right to love.

A splendid sacred season!

I believe in nature and humanity and am here to serve the common people of Pakistan. There is a great deal of suffering in this country and I'm here to help.

It is one of history's great tragedies that American conservatism, born in part in resistance to Soviet torture, should end by endorsing it in America, by Americans.

Perhaps there is no greater issue facing contemporary women than the choices they must make about balancing home and work.

The world is incomprehensible. We won't ever understand it; we won't ever unravel its secrets. Thus we must treat the world as it is: a sheer mystery.

It wasn't a healthy attitude, but it wasn't really a healthy world.

Maybe" she said. "I just wish we'd have a little mishap.It would be reassuring

I hereby resolve to kill every vampire in America.

He licked his bowl and he looked at me, and then he did the wild thing on my leg.