“People tend to rally around power.”
“As a rule, people tend to forget the most important things in life when money, power and lust are involved.”
“Black Consciousness is in essence the realization by the black man of the need to rally together with his brothers around the cause of their oppression.”
“Lonely people tend, rather, to be lonely because they decline to bear the psychic costs of being around other humans. They are allergic to people. People affect them too strongly.”
“And then we were kissing.....The space around us evaporated, and for a weird moment I rally like my body; this cancer-ruined thing I'd spent years dragging around suddenly seemed worth the struggle,..”
“People around the world have always been more impressed by the power of our example than by the example of our power.”