I don't know, now, when I first looked at Hella and found her stale, found her body uninteresting, her presence grating. It seemed to happen all at once—I suppose that only means that it had been happ...
Every society is really governed by hidden laws, by unspoken but profound assumptions on the part of the people, and ours is no exception.
But just as a society must have a scapegoat, so hatred must have a symbol.
Ashore, the palms gently bowed before the wind, mixing the rustling of fronds with the murmur of surf in a captivating voice of mid-ocean solitude. With fully restored mind and body, I sailed away the...
Any upheaval in the universe is terrifying because it so profoundly attacks one’s sense of one’s own reality. Well, the black man has functioned in the white man’s world as a fixed star, as an immovab...
Any honest examination of the national life proves how far we are from the standard of human freedom with which we began. The recovery of this standard demands of everyone who loves this country a har...
Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but, most of all, endurance.
Οι άνθρωποι που θυμούνται τρελαίνονται από τον πόνο,τον πόνο να αναβιώνουν αιωνίως τον θάνατο της αθωότητάς τους.Οι άνθρωποι που ξεχνούν παθαίνουν μια άλλου είδους τρέλα,την τρέλα της άρνησης του πόνο...
We are living in an age of revolution, whether we will or no, and that America is the only Western nation with both the power and, as I hope to suggest, the experience that may help to make these revo...
You think...that my life is shameful because my encounters are. And they are. But you should ask yourself why they are.Why are they—shameful?Because there is no affection in them, and no joy. It’s lik...
You don't know what's happening on the other side of the wall, because you don't want to know.
Yes, he had heard it all his life, but it was only now that his ears were opened to this sound that came from darkness, that could only come from darkness, that yet bore such sure witness to the glory...
Wright puts this idea can only proceed from the assumption—not entirely unsound—that Americans, who evade, so far as possible, all genuine experience, have therefore no way of assessing the experience...
We had our arms round each other. It was like holding in my hand some rare, exhausted, nearly doomed bird which I had miraculously happened to find.
We do not trust educated people and rarely, alas, produce them, for we do not trust the independence of mind which alone makes a genuine education possible.
Though we do not wholly believe it yet, the interior life is a real life, and the intangible dreams of people have a tangible effect on the world.
This helplessness and this gnawing uneasiness does something, at length, to even the toughest mind. Perhaps the best way to sum all this up is to say that the people I knew felt, mainly, a peculiar ki...
They preferred the invention because this invention expressed and corroborated their hates and fears so perfectly. It is just as well to remember that people are always doing this. Perhaps many of tho...
There is something fantastic in the spectacle I now present to myself of having run so far, so hard, across the ocean even, only to find myself brought up short once more before the bulldog in my own...
The woman on the bed was old, her life was fading as the mist rose. She thought of her mother as already in the grave; and she would not let herself be strangled by the hands of the dead. I’m going, M...