People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.

People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned

The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever.

No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it.

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.

Most people... find a disorientating mismatch between the long-term nature of their liabilities and the increasingly short-term nature of their assets.