I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry that is prose = words in their best order - poetry = the best words in the best order.
The only thing that white people have that black people need or should want is power-and no one holds power forever.
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 seed of everything is in everything else.
No Big Power in all history ever thought of itself as an aggressor. That...
Information is power. But like all power, there are...
