Every man, it seems, interprets the world in the light of his habits and desires
It would have been impossible for me to have told anyone what I derived from these novels, for it was nothing less than than a sense of life itself. All my life had shaped me for the realism, the matu...
I was not leaving the south to forget the south, but so that some day I might understand it
Едно усмихнато момчестои сред падащия сняг,простира длани,докато побелеят.
Color hate defined the place of black life as below that of white life; and the black man, responding to the same dreams as the white man, strove to bury within his heart his awareness of this differe...
My imaginings, of course, had no objective value whatever. My spontaneous fantasies lived in my mind because I felt completely helpless in the face of this threat that might come upon me at any time,...
I had tasted what to me was life, and I would have more of it, somehow, someway.
You asked me questions nobody ever asked me before. You knew that I was a murderer two times over, but you treated me like a man...
Whether he’ll follow some gaudy, hysterical leader who’ll promise rashly to fill the void in him, or whether he’ll come to an understanding with the millions of his kindred fellow workers under trade-...
Nigger, you sure ought to be glad it was us you talked to that way. You’re a lucky bastard, ’cause if you’d said that to some other white man, you might’ve been a dead nigger now. I was learning rapid...
Held at bay by the hate of others, preoccupied with his own feelings, he was continuously at war with reality.
As he stumbled along a high bright object caught his eyes; he looked up. Atop a building across the street, above the heads of the people, loomed a flaming cross. At once he knew that it had something...
Hence, there is no such thing as an absolute objectivity of attitude. The most rigorously determined attitude of objectivity is, at best, relative. We are human; we are the slaves of our assumptions,...
If you think I’m telling tall tales, get chummy with some white cop who works in a Black Belt district and ask him for the lowdown. When
There was a hunger for power reaching out of the senses of man and trying to say something in the symbols of action.
...the real danger does not stem from those who seek to grab their share of wealth through force, or from those who try to defend their property through violence, for both of these groups, by their af...
Violence is a personal necessity for the oppressed...It is not a strategy consciously devised. It is the deep, instinctive expression of a human being denied individuality.
There were many more folk ditties, some mean, others filthy, all of them cruel. No one ever thought of questioning our right to do this; our mothers and parents generally approved, either actively or...
Pale yellow sunshine fell through high windows and slashed the air.
Sweep away the cloudsAnd let a dome of blue skyGive this sea a name!
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