When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

The first step towards philosophy is incredulity.

I speak to the black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition.

A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.'

There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too.