What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so deep that I wonder if every white man in this country, when he plants a tree, doesn't see Negroes hanging from its branches.

Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. They agree to live in it. The air there is nauseating: they can breathe it.

I'm homosexual... How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green.

I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.

There are so few women in general who aren't completely threatened and confused by other women's success. It's very disappointing.

Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.

It seems clear to me that the Obama Administration has no human rights policy. That is, while in some inchoate sense they would like respect for human rights to grow around the world, as all Americans would, they have no actual policy to achieve that goal - and they subordinate it to all their other policy goals.

If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.