What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so deep that I wonder if every white man in this country, when he plants a tree, doesn't see Negroes…

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I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep...

I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep...

Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience,...

Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience,...

To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.

To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.

I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.

I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.

Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young...

Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young...

What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born.

What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born.

Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.

Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.

I'm homosexual... How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know...

I'm homosexual... How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know...

Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the...

Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the...

The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and...

The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and...

Violence is a calm that disturbs you.

Violence is a calm that disturbs you.

A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming...

A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming...

Violence is a calm that disturbs you.

Violence is a calm that disturbs you.

I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.

I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.

Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. They...

Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. They...

Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true...

Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true...

Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.

Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.

A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of...

A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of...

The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to...

The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to...