We should certainly know by now that it is one thing to overthrow a dictator or repel an invader and quite another thing really to achieve a revolution. Time and time and time again, the people discover that they have merely betrayed themselves into the hands of yet another Pharaoh, who, since he was necessary to put the broken country together, will not let them go.
The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but, most of all, endurance.
I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.
In order to have a conversation with someone you must reveal yourself.
You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
People can cry much easier than they can change.
Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
What passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one's heroic ancestors. It's astounding to me, for example, that so many people really seem to believe that the country was founded by a band of heroes who wanted to be free.
... every human being is an unprecedented miracle.
Drive to the heart of every answer and expose the question the answer hides.
You don't realize that you're intelligent until it gets you into trouble.
Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be
People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception.
You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don't live the only life you have, you won't live some other life, you won't live any life at all.
A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.
I conceive of God, in fact, as a means of liberation and not a means to control others.
You want to write a sentence as clean as a bone. That is the goal.
Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours.
The reason people think it's important to be white is that they think it's important not to be black.
When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.
Art has to be a kind of confession. I don't mean a true confession in the sense of that dreary magazine. The effort it seems to me, is: if you can examine and face your life, you can discover the terms with which you are connected to other lives, and they can discover them, too - the terms with which they are connected to other people.
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