I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.

The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever.

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread.

The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.

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.

There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment the time is always now.

No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.