One must lose one's life in order to find it.
In the future, as in the present, as in the past, black people will build many new worlds.This is true. I will make it so. And you will help me.
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Create
In a way winter is the real spring the time when the inner things happen the resurge of nature.
You don't have to be afraid of change. You don't have to worry about what's being taken away. Just look to see what's been added.
Even in slight things the experience of the new is rarely without some stirring of foreboding.
To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.
Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incompetents in asylums and those in cemeteries.
The only man who can't change his mind is a man who hasn't got one.
The death of dogma is the birth of reality.
We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the comforts of further inertia and the irksomeness of action.
Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method.— Walter Benjamin, Unpacking My Library
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
The world does not have to change.... The only thing that has to change is our attitude.
It is only an error in judgement to make a mistake but it shows infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.
When I write, I disturb. When I show a film, I disturb. When I exhibit my painting, I disturb, and I disturb if I don't. I have a knack for disturbing.
It is never any good dwelling on goodbyes. It is not the being together that it prolongs it is the parting.
The first step toward change is acceptance. Once you accept yourself you open the door to change. That's all you have to do. Change is not something you do it's something you allow.
You cannot step twice into the same river for other waters are continually flowing on.
The only people in the world who can change things are those who can sell ideas.
All our final resolutions are made in a state of mind which is not going to last.