Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?.

Sentimentality, the ostentatious parading of excessive and spurious emotion, is the mark of dishonesty...the wet eyes of the sentimentalist betray hi….

People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction..

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, n….

All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story, to vomit th….

There is something terribly radical about believing that one's own experience and images are important enough to speak about, much less to write abou….

Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being..

We cannot discuss the state of our minorities until we first have a sense of what we are, who we are, what our goals are, and what we take life to be..

You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you..

Freaks are called freaks and are treated as they are treated – in the main, abominably – because they are human beings who cause to echo, deep within….

I really do believe in the New Jerusalem. I really do believe that we can all become better than we are. I know we can. But the price is enormous ….

I was in his hands, he called me by the thunder at my ear. I was in his hands: I was being changed; all that I could do was cling to him. I did not r….

It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless..

Even the most incorrigible maverick has to be born somewhere. He may leave the group that produced him-he may be forced to-but nothing will efface hi….

Words like "freedom," "justice," "democracy" are not common concepts; on the contrary, they are rare. People are not born knowing what these are. It ….

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.

It seems to me that one ought to rejoice in the fact of death-- ought to decide, indeed, to earn one's death by confronting with passion the conundru….

When the white man came to Africa, the white man had the Bible and the African had the land, but now it is the white man who is being, reluctantly an….

But, when the chips are down, its better to be furious with someone you love, or frightened for someone you love, than be put through the merciless h….

Rage can only with difficulty, and never entirely, be brought under the domination of the intelligence, and therefore is not susceptible to any argum….

It is hard for anyone under twenty to realise that death has already assigned them a number, which is going to come up one day..