It ain't only the bad ones, nor yet the dumb ones that gets sucked under.
It is axiomatic that the Negro is religious, which is to say that he stands in fear of the God our ancestors gave us and before whom we all tremble yet. There are probably more churches in Harlem than...
It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have. --The Price of the Ticket, No Name in the Street (1972; repr. 1985) The
It is not Bigger whom we fear, since his appearance among us makes our victory certain. It is the others, who smile, who go to church, who give no cause for complaint, whom we sometimes consider with...
It is only now beginning to be borne in on us—very faintly, it must be admitted, very slowly, and very much against our will—that this vision of the world is dangerously inaccurate, and perfectly usel...
It is quite impossible to write a worth-while novel about a Jew or a Gentile or a Homosexual, for people refuse, unhappily, to function in so neat and one-dimensional a fashion.
It is really quite impossible to be affirmative about anything which one refuses to question; one is doomed to remain inarticulate about about anything which one hasn’t, by an act of the imagination,...
It is very nearly impossible . . . to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind. --They Can’t Turn Back, in Mademoiselle (New York, Aug. 1960; repr. in The Price of...
It seemed, then, that a lifetime would not be long enough for me to act with Joey the act of love.
It was better not to judge the man who had gone down under an impossible burden. It was better to remember: Thou knowest this man's fall, but thou knowest not his wrassling.
It's a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
John’s heart was hardened against the Lord. His father was God’s minister, the ambassador of the King of Heaven, and John could not bow before the throne of grace without first kneeling to his father.
Life only offers the choice of remembering the garden or forgetting it. Either, or: it takes strength to remember, it takes another kind of strength to forget, it takes a hero to do both. People who r...
Love him,' said Jacques, with vehemence, 'love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?
Love was a country he knew nothing about.
My progress reportconcerning my journey to the palace of wisdomis discouraging.I lack certain indispensable aptitudes.
Negroes want to be treated like men: a perfectly straightforward statement, containing only seven words. People who have mastered Kant, Hegel, Shakespeare, Marx, Freud, and the Bible find this stateme...
No. It would help if I were able to feel guilty.But the end of innocence is also the end of guilt (112)
Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to change, his place; Unpractised he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines fashioned to the varying hour; Far other aims his heart had learned to prize, More skille...
Not a thousand years ago, it was illegal to teach a slave to read. Not a thousand years ago, the Supreme Court decided that separate could not be equal. And today, as we sit here, no one is learning a...
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