I know the world is bruised and bleeding, and though it is important not to ignore its pain, it is also critical to refuse to succumb to its malevole….

Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love..

It's important, therefore, to know who the real enemy is, and to know the function, the very serious function of racism, which is distraction. It kee….

Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art..

Books ARE a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind..

I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free,….

A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order..

You are your best thing.

The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one..

Let your face speak what's in your heart..

Racism will disappear when it's no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it'll be gone. But at the moment, ….

There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race - scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct... it….

There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civiliza….

If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down..

If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it..

Make a difference about something other than yourselves..

All important things are hard..

At some point in life, the world's beauty becomes enough..

I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.

The function of freedom is to free someone else..

From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny..