"I can't be a pessimist because I'm alive. To be a pessimist means that you have agreed that human life is an academic matter."

"When you're trying to destroy a human being, it's very important to tell him that he's a nigger."

"You can't be free until I'm free."

"The really terrible thing, old buddy, is that you've got to find your own way to live and nobody can tell you how."

"Everybody's got to love somebody. And if you can't love the one you want, you love the one you got."