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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate...
Words like freedom, justice, democracy are not common concepts; on the contrary, they are rare. People are not born...
It is only in his music, which Americans are able to admire because a protective sentimentality limits their...
All over Harlem, Negro boys and girls are growing into stunted maturity, trying desperately to find a place to stand;...
People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters...
A child cannot be taught by someone who despises him.
Source: In Famous Black...
The secret lies, I think, in his intimate knowledge of the people he is addressing be they black or white, and in the...
Where there is no vision, the people perish.
Source: Nobody Knows My Name,...
When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.
Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and...
Color is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
Source: In...
The reason people think it's important to be white is that they think it's important not to be...
No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only...
I must oppose any attempt that Negroes may make to do to others what has been done to them. . . . I know the spiritual...
It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless.
Source: The Price of the...
Fathers and sons arrive at that relationship only by claiming that relationship: that is by paying for it. If the...
True rebels, after all, are as rare as true lovers, and, in both cases, to mistake a fever for a passion can destroy...
We cannot discuss the state of our minorities until we first have some sense of what we are, who we are, what our...
They saw themselves as others had seen them. They had been formed by the images made of them by those who had had the...
There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the...