A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.
An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.
Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.
Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.
It is very nearly impossible... To become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.
No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it.
Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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.
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid the state of being alone.
The reason people think it's important to be white is that they think it's important not to be black.