"You can't live in this country and be a black man and not be angry."

"One writes out of one thing only: one’s own experience. Everything depends on how relentlessly one has examined one’s experience."

"The great force of history comes from the fact that we carry it within us, are unconsciously controlled by it in many ways, and history is literally present in everything we do."

"The world is before you, and you need not take it, or suffer it, for what it is. You can also make it what it will be."

"The people who are running this country are insane."