"To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the moment of waking to the moment of sleep."

"The future is now. It was now a long time ago. We are always living in the future."

"The sexual question and the racial question have always been intertwined."

"The great difficulty, and that which makes the American Negro's experience unique, is that he has been forced to make his journey alone."

"The world is full of people who have never had to look at themselves."