There is no reason for you to try to become like white people and there is no basis whatever for their impertinent assumption that *they* must accept *you*. The really terrible thing, old buddy, is th...
There seems to be a vast amount of confusion in the Western world concerning these matters, but love and sexual activity are not synonymous: Only by becoming inhuman can the human being pretend that t...
There they stood, in twos and threes and fours, in their Cub Scout uniforms and with their Cub Scout faces, totally unprepared, as is the way with American he-men, for anything that could not be settl...
Therefore, whatever white people do not know about Negroes reveals, precisely and inexorably, what they do not know about themselves.
They went on working for the promise of a pension and their health benefits, which was ironic in that almost any other job would benefit their health better than any doctor’s pills.
This equation has placed our cities among the most dangerous in the world and has placed our youth among the most empty and most bewildered. The situation of our youth is not mysterious. Children have...
Time could not be bought. The only coin time accepted was life.
Wash me, cried the slave to his Maker, and I shall be whiter, whiter than snow!
We live in a nation of pigs and murderers.
Well, hell, if people keep telling you you ain’t no good’ - she [Leona] tried to laugh - ‘you bound to turn out pretty bad.
What the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself. You become a collaborator, an accomplice to your own murderers, because you bel...
What white Americans do not face when they regard a Negro reality- the fact that life is tragic. Life is tragic simply because he earth turn and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for eac...
Words like freedom, justice, democracy are not common concepts; on the contrary, they are rare. People are not born knowing what these are. It takes enormous and, above all, individual effort to arriv...
Years ago, when he was around fourteen, he'd been all hipped on the idea of going to India. He read books about people sitting on rocks, naked, in all kinds of weather, but mostly bad, naturally, and...
You can always drive to your destination, but a true journey is made on foot.
You're getting to be a big boy,' I said desperately, 'it's time you started thinking about your future.''I'm thinking about my future,' said Sonny, grimly. 'I think about it all the time.
All men were like this, their thoughts rose no higher, and they lived only to gratify on the bodies of women their brutal and humiliating needs. One
Consider that I have many responsibilities, but none greater than this: to last, as Hemingway says, and get my work done. I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
He was one of those poets who escaped the terrors of writing by writing all the time.
Large part of her simplicity consisted in determining not to want what she could not have with ease. So
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