Read moreAny writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.
Read moreA child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.
Read moreHatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
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No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.
Read moreThe power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.
Read moreI am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.