They say that oppression engenders hate. They are heard on all sides crying hate hate.

Language casts sheaves of reality upon the social body, stamping it and violently shaping it.

... I am with fire between my teeth and still nothing but my blank page.

The dictionary is, however, only a rough draft.

Today, together, let us repeat as our slogan that all trace of violence must disappear from this earth, then the sun will be honey-colored and music good to hear.

Not only do we naturalize history, but also consequently we naturalize the social phenomena which express our oppression, making change impossible

The class struggle is precisely that which resolves the contradictions between two opposed classes by abolishing them at the same time that it constitutes and reveals them as classes.

The basic agreement between human beings, indeed what makes them human and makes them social, is language.

Remember. Or, failing that, invent.

I feel a near passion for intelligence at grips with itself and not letting go.

It is quite possible for a work of literature to operate as a war machine upon its epoch.

Believe in your sacred self: strength of your being.

I will stand up and speak in my own voice and no man will ever silence me again.

Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.

Teaching people to become like Jesus, outside of the power of Jesus, dishonors Jesus.

Leaders never outgrow the need to change.

Mary and Carrie and baby Grace and Ma had all had scarlet fever. The Nelsons across the creek had had it too, so there had been no one to help Pa and Laura.

Women have to work exceptionally hard.

All the great religions of the world inculcate equality and brotherhood of mankind and the virtue of toleration.

Most of what you see in architecture are watered-down ideas of sculptors who have come before.

An unaspiring person believes according to what he achieves. An aspiring person achieves according to what he believes.