I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty.

Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.

The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.

A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.

What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so deep that I wonder if every white man in this country, when he plants a tree, doesn't see Negroes hanging from its branches.

I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.