If it was so honorable and glorious to be black, why was it the yellow-skinned people among us had so much prestige?

If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.

Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.

I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

All my skinfolk ain't kinfolk.

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.

I love myself when I am laughing. . . and then again when I am looking mean and impressive.

Bitterness is the coward's revenge on the world for having been hurt.

If you haven't got it, you can't show it. If you have got it, you can't hide it.

...It is only now that memory works both ways. Which of us dreamed it - those from the country of nights five times as warm and as cold, or those who turned away and woke?

The ones who would push you to engage in negative activities are the same ones who would laugh at you if you are drowning in the pool of misery.

Often you will end up loving the new things you try and even if you don't love it, you've given yourself a new experience.

There is no escaping this fight. It is civilization or Jihadism. We can and should debate tactics; but the sides are clear enough.

To be always seeking after the useful does not become free and exalted souls.

I don't mean to be a racist but if you're going to get raped by a Japanese guy, it's not going to hurt at all.

In God's eyes, walking on water is no more miraculous than the ability of hemoglobin to bond with oxygen inside a red blood corpuscle.

When I'm at home I practice everyday.

I'm an anti-industrial kind of guy.

The British audience was very important to me. I have always looked away from American to non-American audiences and so this was important.