For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for whatthey become.

Those kids aren't dumb. But the people who run these schools want to make sure they don't get smart: they are really teaching the kids to be slaves.

The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.

And I was yet aware that this was only a moment, that the world waited outside, as hungry as a tiger, and that trouble stretched above us, longer than the sky.

I'm not interested in anybody's guilt. Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford. I know you didn't do it, and I didn't do it either, but I am responsible for it because I am a man and a citizen of this country and you are responsible for it, too, for the very same reason... Anyone who is trying to be conscious must begin to dismiss the vocabulary which we've used so long to cover it up, to lie about the way things are.

The reason people think it's important to be white is that they think it's important not to be black.

You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.