The oppressed will always believe the worst about themselves.

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

Where are you from? New York?""Weird you picked up on that, " she said, "I've been gone from there for so long."Like a couple of decades could dilute that accent.

Hope is the light at the end of the tunnel guiding the way.

You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace.

People are fed up with the way things are. There is a lot of bitterness out there, a lot of anger about a lack of jobs and concerns for the next generation.

Moral progress has consisted in the main of protest against cruel customs, and of attempts to enlarge human sympathy.

He who have two grounds of trust is lost!

Possibly he knew, as he wrote this, that he was mad - because inside every madman sits a little sane man saying 'You're mad, you're mad.'

I have respected women from the beginning of my life.

If my heart can become pure and simple, like that of a child, I think there probably can be no greater happiness than this.

You can enjoy stargazing just by going out and learning a couple constellations with your kids.