"The death of a beloved is an amputation."

"If you can't get emotional about what you believe in your heart, you're in the wrong business."

"A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true."

"All learning has an emotional base."

"You have to accept that most people are mad at their perception of you, which is distorted by layers of unhealthy and unaffected emotional wounds."

"You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason."