To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time. Votes: 17
A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled. Votes: 0
All art is a kind of confession. Votes: 0
Writing is a political instrument. Votes: 0
All racists are irresponsible. Votes: 0
The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him. Votes: 0
You don't have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back. Votes: 0
The writer's only real task: to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art Votes: 0
The trick is to love somebody.... If you love one person, you see everybody else differently. Votes: 0
At four o'clock in the morning, when everyone is drunk enough, then extraordinary things can happen. Votes: 0
Man cannot live by profit alone. Votes: 0
The determination to outwit one's situation means that one has no models, only object lessons. Votes: 0
The real victim of bigotry is the white man who hides his weakness under his myth of superiority. Votes: 0
No man is a devil in his own mind. Votes: 0
Employment is my right my destiny. Votes: 0
The male cannot bear very much humiliation; and he really cannot bear it, it obliterates him. Votes: 0
You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you. Votes: 0
I think Americans are terrified of feeling anything. I never met a people more infantile in my life. Votes: 0
The occurrence of an event is not the same thing as knowing what it is that one has lived through. Votes: 0
Whose little boy are you? Votes: 0