The favorite device of the devil, ancient and modern, is to force a human being into a more or less artificial class, accuse the class of unnamed and unnameable sin, and then damn any individual in the alleged class, however innocent he may be.

Whiteness is ownership of the earth.

All art is propaganda...I do not care a damn, for any art that is not used for propaganda.

To the real question, How does it feel to be a problem? I answer seldom a word.

The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?

Liberty trains for liberty.

But art is not simply works of art; it is the spirit that knows Beauty, that has music in its soul and the color of sunsets in its headkerchiefs; that can dance on a flaming world and make the world dance, too.