The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.

To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn’t have it and thought of other things if you did.

When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.

No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it.

I’ve always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.

There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left...

The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.