They appeared from where I stood as peaceful as two lovers who had gaily costumed themselves for an afternoon stroll, but on impulse had decided to lie down and nap, or kiss and make love, or merely w...
Bet gal nedera vienos meilės lyginti su kita
A lot of the literature available concerning depression is, as I say, breezily optimistic, spreading assurances that nearly all depressive states will be stabilized or reversed if only the suitable an...
And I think it was a great Frenchman, Voltaire, who said that the beginning of wisdom is the moment when one understands how little concerned with one’s own life are other men, they who are so despera...
But I could tell from the way his muscles become stiff and this trembling that ran through him that he was finished with me. Even so I couldn’t stop.
But oh, my brothers, black folk ain’t never goin’ to be led from bondage without they has pride! Black folk ain’t goin’ to be free, they ain’t goin’ to have no spoonbread an’ sweet cider less’n they s...
Doctor, I will be as direct with you as I can. I have long and do still steadfastly believe that slavery is the great cause of all the chief evils of our land. It is a cancer eating at our bowels, the...
Dress is important. It's part of being human. It might as well be a thing of beauty, something you take real pleasure in doing. And maybe in the process, give other people pleasure. Though that's seco...
For me the real healers were seclusion and time.
I actually shivered at the insincerity that gripped me as I spoke these words: their falseness was shameful. I was sure my coolness would return. I'd just been caught with my guard down. But at the mo...
I came to absorb the history of the Virginia Tidewater—that primordial American demesne where the land was sucked dry by tobacco, laid waste and destroyed a whole century before golden California beca...
I don’t know what to say. Don’t try, she said, sighing. Oh, it’s so hot! And thought, Indeed if I consider Charlottesville that will be all. Which is worse, past or future? Neither. I will fold up my...
If there are Jews in this group, you have no right to live more than two weeks.’ Then he said, ‘Any nuns here? Like the priests, you have one month. All the rest, three months.
In my career as a writer I have always been attracted to morbid themes—suicide, rape, murder, military life, marriage, slavery.
It is I am sure a kind of unorthodoxy, and considered thus by some, I hear my master say (I resume my station, still flustered and with a madly working heart), but it is my conviction that the more re...
My mother, alone among all the Negroes at Turner’s Mill, had been laid honorably to rest in the family plot among white folks (scant yards away, indeed, from the unsentimental Benjamin, now spinning i...
Neath cold sand I dreamed of death / but woke at dawn to see / in glory, the bright, the morning star.
They had begun just lately—rumors about the Loftises, rumors about another woman, whisperings which disturbed him not so much because they concerned the Loftises—whom he didn’t know too well, in any c...
To make matters worse, I was out of a job and had very little money and was self-exiled to Flatbush—like others of my countrymen, another lean and lonesome Southerner wandering amid the Kingdom of the...
Greed is not a racial but a human prediliction and
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