Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things, I am tempted to think there are no little things.
“I ascribe a basic importance to the phenomenon of language. To speak means to be in a position to use a certain syntax, to grasp the morphology of this or that language, but it means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization.”
“The black community has been the foundation of the progressive community in this country for a long time.”