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

To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.

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.