“...I saw it clearly. The tragedy of our time is to have lost the ability to feel loss, the inability of power to rise to its responsibility for human decency....I was thinking that if what distinguishes us as humans is our stupidity, what may redeem us is our grace'.”
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“In some company it’s perfectly all right to prick your finger, but very bad form to finger your prick.”
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“For isn't it odd that the only language I have in which to speak of this crime is the language of the criminal who committed the crime?”
― A Small Place
― A Small Place
“What I see is the millions of people, of whom I am just one, made orphans: no motherland, no fatherland, no gods, no mounds of earth for holy ground, no excess of love which might lead to the things that an excess of love sometimes brings, and worst and most painful of all, no tongue. (For isn't it odd that the only language I have in which to speak of this crime is the language of the criminal who committed the crime? And what can that really mean? For the language of the criminal can contain only the goodness of the criminal's deed. The language of the criminal can explain and express the deed only from the criminal's point of view. It cannot contain the horror of the deed, the injustice of the deed, the agony, the humiliation inflicted one me.”
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“Whether he likes it or not, the black man has to wear the livery the white man has fabricated for him”
― Black Skin, White Masks
― Black Skin, White Masks
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