I have never seen myself as a spokesman. I am a witness. In the church in which I was raised you were supposed to bear witness to the truth. Now, later on, you wonder what in the world the truth is, but you do know what a lie is.

I knew Richard [Wright] and I loved him. [...] I was not attacking him; I was trying to clarify something for myself.

You don't realize that you're intelligent until it gets you into trouble.

The brutal truth is that the bulk of white people in American never had any interest in educating black people, except as this could serve white purposes. It i…

Wir sein pettler. Hoc est verum.

What's bad about my biography? My father was a worker, my brothers, too, and I have always honestly served my country.

Fundamentally, our Lord's message was Himself. He did not come merely to preach a Gospel; He himself is that Gospel. He did not come merely to give bread; He s…