I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro. This is a passionately racist country; it will continue to be so in the foreseeable future.

Quote by Susan Sontag

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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.

I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.

To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by...

To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by...

Tamed as it may be, sexuality remains one of the demonic forces in human consciousness...

Tamed as it may be, sexuality remains one of the demonic forces in human consciousness...

My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.

My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.

The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art...

The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art...

It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a...

It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a...

Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of...

Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of...

Lying is the most simple form of self-defence.

Lying is the most simple form of self-defence.

The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite...

The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite...

What pornographic literature does is precisely to drive a wedge between one's existence as a...

What pornographic literature does is precisely to drive a wedge between one's existence as a...

It seems positively unnatural to travel without taking a camera along... The very activity of...

It seems positively unnatural to travel without taking a camera along... The very activity of...

The discovery of the good taste of bad taste can be very liberating. The man...

The discovery of the good taste of bad taste can be very liberating. The man...

The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom...

The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom...

In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the...

In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the...

Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to...

Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to...

Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of...

Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of...

Sanity is a cozy lie.

Sanity is a cozy lie.

What we need is to use what we have.

What we need is to use what we have.

Serendipity. Look for something, find something else, and realize that what you've found is more...

Serendipity. Look for something, find something else, and realize that what you've found is more...

When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider...

When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider...