I must admit I'm a total control freak. That is the way that it works best for me.
To ask questions of the universe, and then learn to live with those questions, is the way he achieves his own identity.
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
Ask any Mexican, any Puerto Rican, any black man, any poor person - ask the wretched how they fare in the halls of justice, and then you will know, not whether or not the country is just, but whether or not it has any love for justice, or any concept of it. It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do.
I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
To be black and conscious in America is to be in a constant state of rage.
I sat there afraid that I might discover that the world around me is not real. then i thought: wait. i need fear that only if its true, and if it is, i must consider that while this may be bad, worse than that is living in a world that is only real because i am a coward.
If a traveller does not meet with one who is his better, or his equal, let him firmly keep to his solitary journey; there is no companionship with a fool.
You know what else I've learnt? That it's all right not to ride the crest of the wave. Every time a wave comes along I retreat, and I haven't come to any harm yet.
Success shuns the man who lacks ideas.