The misfortune of the man of color is having been enslaved. The misfortune and inhumanity of the white man are having killed man somewhere.

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.

He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt...

Will gives us the ability to take an idea hold that idea and zero right in on something

Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events not of words. Trust movement.

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

You know it's very hard to maintain a theory in the face of life that comes crashing about you.

Start loving now, and you start Heaven now.

Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.

I had the good fortune early on to cast some really great people that were not just characters, they had character.

If 'Pygmalion' is not good enough for your friends with its own verbal music, their talent must be altogether extraordinary.

Late to bed, late to rise, makes a man unhealthy, poor, and stupid.