...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...
If you posses enough courage to speak out what you are, you will find that you are not alone.
Sweep away the cloudsAnd let a dome of blue skyGive this sea a name!
Pale yellow sunshine fell through high windows and slashed the air.
Knowing almost nothing about books or serious magazines, intellectually he is a creature of the movie house, where he is an easy prey to fantasies concocted by Hollywood for the gullible. He
It had been only through books-at best, no more than vicarious cultural transfusions-that I had managaed to keep myself alive in a negatively vital way. Whenever my environment had failed to support o...
In me was shaping a yearning for a kind of consciousness, a mode of being that the way of life about me had said could not be, must not be, and upon which the penalty of death had been placed. Somewhe...
I had tasted what to me was life, and I would have more of it, somehow, someway.
Hunger has always been more or less at my elbow when I played, but now I began to wake up at night to find hunger standing at my bedside, staring at my gauntly.
He lay still, his bloodshot eyes staring blankly before him, and drifted into dreams of his problems, compulsively living out dialogues, summing up emotional scenes with his mother, Dot, and his frien...
176 Winter rain at night Sweetening the taste of bread And spicing the soup.
A knowledge of how to live was a knowledge of how to die.
....I wondered if there had been a more corroding and devastating attack upon the personalities of men than the idea of racial discrimination.
Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.
They hate because they fear, and they fear because they feel that the deepest feelings of their lives are being assaulted and outraged. And they do not know why; they are powerless pawns in a blind pl...
These conditions reflected the failures of modern civilization—the death of genuine spiritual values and traditions, the harsh ness of economic greed and exploitation, the avarice for glittering mater...
The day Native Son appeared, American culture was changed forever, Howe declared. It made impossible a repetition of the old lies [and] brought out into the open, as no one ever had before, the hatred...
Public peace is the act of public trust; it is the faith that all are secure and will remain secure.
Over spring mountainsA star ends the paragraphOf a thunderstorm.
I had written a book of short stories which was published under the title of Uncle Tom's Children. When the review of that book began to appear, I realized that I had made an awful naive mistake. I fo...