What a tiresome place America would be if freedom meant we all had to think alike or be the same color or wear the same gray flannel suit! That road leads to the conformity of the graveyard!

Life is a short walk. There is so little time and so much living to achieve.

My fight is not for racial sameness but for racial equality and against racial prejudice and discrimination.

Most of us came here in chains and most of you came here to escape your chains. Your freedom was our slavery, and therein lies the bitter difference in the way we look at life.

We have to undo the millions of little white lies that America told itself and the world about the American Black man.

Western man wrote "his" history as if it were the history of the entire human race.

The Negro was invented in America.

Integration begins the day after the minds of the people are desegregated.

The Negro loves America enough to criticize her fundamentally. Most white Americans simply can't be bothered.

Marriage is one sweet way in which one can taste heaven on earth. Similarly, I can also become hell on earth.

Why... is human desire so unsatisfying?

The reality I submerse myself in when writing, is far greater than the physical reality surrounding me at work!

There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.

One of my first records that I heard was 'Wish You Were Here' by Pink Floyd.

This is what I think now: that the natural state of the sentient adult is a qualified unhappiness.

In love we are not only liable to betray ourselves, but also the secrets of others.

I support anything to do with the welfare and rights of children in a huge way.

As you perform good actions selflessly, true love will blossom, which will purify our emotional mind.

Nothing can be good if you do it for money or for fame.