O my body, make of me always a man who questions!

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.

I place my trust in You, O adorable Blood, our Redemption, our regeneration. Fall, drop by drop, into the hearts that have wandered from You and soften their hardness.

Every friend was once a stranger and if you know this, you have to understand that conversations are the beginning of connection

I tell you this because books for young readers are so often written about that very moment: the moment of the fork. The moment the old man cannot return to.

Sometimes I found that in my happy moments I could not believe that I had ever been miserable.

You can't write a script in your mind and then force yourself to follow it. You have to let yourself be.

I lost you when you left me to find yourself.

I've liked women but I've never felt I wanted to give up my life completely. I've never wanted to go to bed with anybody.

Once I figured out what I wanted to say in my music. As soon I recognized that and once I was living my truth, the money followed.

What was good was that I had friends who were actors and in theatre who were really good, because I think my strengths were visual, like pictorial.