“I hated the world that wouldn’t let me apply justice without the certain retaliation of injustice.”
― James
― James
“How strange a world, how strange an existence, that one’s equal must argue for one’s equality, that one’s equal must hold a station that allows airing of that argument, that one cannot make that argument for oneself, that premises of said argument must be vetted by those equals who do not agree.”
― James
― James
“Which would frighten you more? A slave who is crazy or a slave who is sane and sees you clearly?”
― James
― James
“At that moment the power of reading made itself clear and real to me. If I could see the words, then no one could control them or what I got from them. They couldn’t even know if I was merely seeing them or reading them, sounding them out or comprehending them. It was a completely private affair and completely free and, therefore, completely subversive.”
― James
― James
“With my pencil, I wrote myself into being.”
― James
― James
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