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The determination to outwit one's situation means that one has no models, only object...
An identity is questioned only when it is menaced, as when the mighty begin to fall, or when the wretched begin to...
It is impossible to pretend that you are not heir to, and therefore, however inadequately or unwillingly, responsible...
Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
To have been where we were, to have paid the price we have paid, to have survived, and to have shaken up the world the...
The wretched of the earth do not decide to become extinct, they resolve, on the contrary, to multiply: life is their...
To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the...
Passion is not friendly. It is arrogant, superbly contemptuous of all that is not itself, and, as the very definition...
Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work...
Man cannot live by profit alone.
Source: In Famous Black Quotations, ed. Janet...
You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world. But books taught me that the...
Experience, which destroys innocence, also leads one back to it.
Source: In...
To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.
Source: In...
People can cry much easier than they can change.
Source: In
Remember, to hate, to be violent, is demeaning. It means you're afraid of the other side of the coin -- to love and be...
People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
Source: In Webster's...
The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
Be careful what you set your heart upon -- for it will surely be yours.
Source: In...
We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is...
The male cannot bear very much humiliation; and he really cannot bear it, it obliterates...