"To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time."

"Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours."

"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."

"When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living."

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

"Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch."