The only way to live, is knowing you’re going to die. If you're afraid to die, you'll never be able to live.

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.

You write in order to change the world…the world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even but a millimetre the way people look at reality, then you change it.

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.

Read, read, read. Never stop reading. And when you can't read anymore… write.

We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist.

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.