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

The interior life is a real life, and the intangible dreams of people have a tangible effect on the world.

Our dehumanization of the Negro then is indivisible from our dehumanization of ourselves; the loss of our own identity is the price we pay for our annulment of his.

A liberal: someone who thinks he knows more about your experience than you do.

You took the best, so why not take the rest?

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 terrifying odds achieved an unassailable and monumental dignity You come from a long line of great poets some of the greatest poets since Homer. One of them said "The very time I thought I was lost My dungeon shook and my chains fell off." You know and I know that the country is celebrating one hundred years of freedom one hundred years too soon. We cannot be free until they are free. God bless you James and Godspeed.

The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.