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Sadiqa and I aimed to be child-centered: What’s best for the child trumps the adult’s personal feelings, philosophies, discomforts, and baggage. It wasn’t always easy and we didn’t always achieve it, and I know we were not alone in our
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“The world tends to trap and immobilize you in the role you play; and it is not always easy—in fact, it is always extremely hard—to maintain a kind of watchful, mocking distance between oneself as one appears to be and oneself as one actually is.”
― Nobody Knows My Name
― Nobody Knows My Name
“The necessity, then, of those “lesser breeds without the law”—those wogs, barbarians, niggers—is this: one must not become more free, not become more base than they: must not be used as they are used, nor yet use them as their abandonment allows one to use them: therefore, they must be civilized. But, when they are civilized, they may simply “spuriously imitate [the civilizer] back again,” leaving the civilizer with no satisfaction on which to rest.”
― The Devil Finds Work: Essays
― The Devil Finds Work: Essays
“Lord, that Hollywood train, forever coming round the bend!”
― The Devil Finds Work: Essays
― The Devil Finds Work: Essays
“No one in the world -- in the entire world -- know more -- knows Americans better or, odd as this may sound, loves them more than the American Negro. This is because he has had to watch you, outwit you, deal with you, and bear you, and sometimes even bleed and die with you, ever since we got here, that is, since both of us, black and white, got here -- and this is a wedding. Whether I like it or not, or whether you like it or not, we are bound together forever. We are part of each other.”
― Nobody Knows My Name
― Nobody Knows My Name
“People are continually pointing out to me the wretchedness of white people in order to console me for the wretchedness of blacks. But an itemized account of the American failure does not console me and it should not console anyone else. That hundreds of thousands of white people are living, in effect, no better than the "niggers" is not a fact to be regarded with complacency. The social and moral bankruptcy suggested by this fact is of the bitterest, most terrifying kind.”
― Nobody Knows My Name
― Nobody Knows My Name
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