I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale you could not ignore its beauty.
Every legend moreover contains its residuum of truth and the root function...
To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a...
No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening each time...
The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
To be sensual I think is to respect and rejoice in the force of life of...
If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology the...
The only thing that white people have that black people need or should want...
The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to...
It is certain in any case that ignorance allied with power is the most...
I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can...
Money it turned out was exactly like sex you thought of nothing else if...
Fires can't be made with dead embers nor can enthusiasm be stirred by...
Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really...
I love America more than any other country in this world and exactly for...
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a...
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate...
Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others....
I am what time circumstance history have made of me certainly but I am...
American history is longer larger more various more beautiful and more...
People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders but they...
The future is like heaven everyone exalts it but no one wants to go there...
There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation....
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot...
The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line banishment from...
The questions which one asks oneself begin at least to illuminate the world...
Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black.
The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become...
People can cry much easier than they can change.
