When people like me, they like me "in spite of my color." When they dislike me; they point out that it isn't because of my color. Either way, I am locked in to the infernal circle.

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.

Maybe knowledge is as fundamental, or even more fundamental than [material] reality.

If you have answers to the “whys”, it will direct you to the “hows”. As simple as that!

I had long ago stopped believing in promises. Biological imperatives, yes. Environmental factors, yes. Promises, no.

Nothing that is not a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.

Words are so often used in the opposite sense, as a screen of diversion. It's the struggle towards truthfulness which is the same whether one is writing a poem, a novel or an argument.

The stage is suspension of disbelief. Film is a literal medium.

The carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere is measured. It's uncontroversial. It's going up. We know that has a tendency to warm the atmosphere and we should be worried about that.

Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry.

With my dog I don't get no respect. He keeps barking at the front door. He don't want to go out. He wants me to leave.

The Puritan did not stop to think; he recognized God in his soul, and acted.