John Howard Griffin Quotes

“Now you go into oblivion.”
― John Howard Griffin, Black Like Me

“Racists are not the pipe-smoking type, I thought to myself.”
― John Howard Griffin, Black Like Me

“If the judgement makes the law and not the law directs the judgement, it is impossible there should be such a thing as an illegal judgement given.”
― John Howard Griffin, Black Like Me

“A law is not good merely because the legislature wills it, but the legislature has the mortal duty to will only that which is good.”
― John Howard Griffin, Black Like Me

“Night coming tenderly
Black like me.”
― John Howard Griffin, Black Like Me