You know and I know that the country is celebrating one hundred years of freedom one hundred years too early. We cannot be free until they are free.
Sin is the only heritage of the natural man...
...when the black populations of the world have a future, so will the Western nations have a future-and not till then. But the terrible probability is that the Western populations, struggling to hold...
Your father or mine, should have told us that not many people have ever died of love. But multitudes have perished, and are perishing every hour—and in the oddest places!—for the lack of it.
We live in a nation of pigs and murderers.
There were hardly any coloured people in the town I grew up in – how am I to know?’ And she hated herself for her next question, but she could not hold it back: ‘Don’t you think I deserve some credit,...
I feel in myself now a faint, a dreadful stirring of what so overwhelmingly stirred in me then, great thirsty heat, and trembling, and tenderness so painful I thought my heart would burst. But out of...
Here was the South Side--a million in captivity--stretching from this doorstep as far as the eye could see. And they didn't even read; depressed populations don't have the time or energy to spare. The...
But to look back from the stony plain along the road which led one to that place is not at all the same thing as walking on the road; the perspective to say the very least, changes only with the journ...
A real decision makes one humble, one knows that it is at the mercy of more things that can be named.
That the world calls morality is nothing but the dream of safety. That's how the world gets to be so fucking moral. The only way to know that you are safe is to see somebody else in danger-otherwise y...
And have brought humanity to the edge of oblivion: because they think they are white.
You can not describe anything without betraying your point of view, your aspirations, your fears, your hopes. Everything.
These captive men are the hidden price for a hiden lie: the righteous must be able to locate the damned.
The vision people hold of the world to come is but a reflection, with predictable wishful distortions, of the world in which they live.
The American idea of sexuality appears to be rooted in the American idea of masculinity. Idea may not be the precise word, for the idea of one’s sexuality can only with great violence be divorced or d...
Perhaps, as we say in America, I wanted to find myself. This is an interesting phrase, not current as far as I know in the language of any other people, which certainly does not mean what it says but...
Nobody can stay in the garden of Eden, Jacques said. And then: I wonder why.
Joyce is right about history being a nightmare—but it may be the nightmare from which no one awaken. People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
It was his hatred and his intelligence that he cherished, the one feeding the other.