Identity would seem to be the garment with which one covers the nakedness of the self: in which case, it is best that the garment be loose, a little ….

It will be hard James but you come from sturdy peasant stock men who picked cotton and dammed rivers and built railroads and in the teeth of the most….

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be som….

Christianity has operated with an unmitigated arrogance and cruelty - necessarily, since a religion ordinarily imposes on those who have discovered t….

We do not trust educated people and rarely, alas, produce them, for we do not trust the independence of mind which alone makes a genuine education po….

True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one's life.

The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions..

Not only was I not born to be a slave; I was not born to hope to become the equal of the slave master..

One day, to everyone’s astonishment, someone drops a match in the powder keg and everything blows up..

For, while the tale of how we suffer, and how we are delighted, and how we may triumph is never new, it always must be heard. There isn't any other t….

The trick is to love somebody.... If you love one person, you see everybody else differently..

You don't need numbers; you need passion, and this is proven by the history of the world!.

If you think too far ahead, if you even try to think too far ahead, you'll never make it..

It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror..

Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt..

The writer's only real task: to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art.

Writing is a political instrument..

I had never before thought of how awful the relationship must be between the musician and his instrument. He has to fill it, this instrument, with th….

The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose..

Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?.

The civilized have created the wretched, quite coldly and deliberately, and do not intend to change the status quo; are responsible for their slaught….