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..

I will no longer take anyone's word for my experience..

You don't realize that you're intelligent until it gets you into trouble..

You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enoug….

When you're writing you're trying to find out something which you don't know..

I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do..

You've got to tell the world how to treat you. If the world tells you how you are going to be treated, you are in trouble..

One cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one's own..

If you really want to know something about solitude, become famous..

A man's balance depends on the weight he carries between his legs..

If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time w….

Freedom lurked around us and I understood, at last, that he could help us be free if we would listen, that he would never be free until we did..

Secrets hidden at the heart of midnight are simply waiting to be dragged to the light, as, on some unlucky high noon, they always are. But secrets sh….

Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, ….

These boys, now, were living as we'd been living then, they were growing up with a rush and their heads bumped abruptly against the low ceiling of th….

I love America more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually..

The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see..

The impossible is the least that one can demand..

You write in order to change the world, knowing perfectly well that you probably can't, but also knowing that literature is indispensable to the worl….

Remember, to hate, to be violent, is demeaning. It means you're afraid of the other side of the coin -- to love and be loved..

Americans should never come to Europe,' she said, and tried to laugh and began to cry, 'it means they never can be happy again. What's the good of an….