Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" Everywhere, everywhere, children are the scorned people of the earth. "

Related Quotes:

" There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how. "

" A lot of black people believe that Jews in this country have become white. They behave like white people rather than Jewish people. "

" Somebody has to take responsibility for being a leader. "

" Nelson Mandela is, for me, the single statesman in the world. The single statesman, in that literal sense, who is not solving all his problems with guns. It's truly unbelievable. "

" Some Native American writers enjoy being called Native American writers. "

" All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was. "

" Women's rights is not only an abstraction, a cause; it is also a personal affair. It is not only about us; it is also about me and you. Just the two of us. "

" I would solve a lot of literary problems just thinking about a character in the subway, where you can't do anything anyway. "

" I always looked upon the acts of racist exclusion, or insult, as pitiable, from the other person. I never absorbed that. I always thought that there was something deficient about such people. "

" If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression. "

" I merged those two words, black and feminist, because I was surrounded by black women who were very tough and and who always assumed they had to work and rear children and manage homes. "

" Black people are victims of an enormous amount of violence. None of those things can take place without the complicity of the people who run the schools and the city. "

" The unflattering reviews are painful for short periods of time; the badly written ones are deeply, deeply insulting. That reviewer took no time to really read the book. "

" Everybody gets everything handed to them. The rich inherit it. I don't mean just inheritance of money. I mean what people take for granted among the middle and upper classes, which is nepotism, the old-boy network. "

" You marvel at the economy and this choice of words. How many ways can you describe the sky and the moon? After Sylvia Plath, what can you say? "

" She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind. "

" There is nothing of any consequence in education, in the economy, in city planning, in social policy that does not concern black people. "

" If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. "

" We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives. "

" I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it. "

" I don't think anybody cares about unwed mothers unless they're black or poor. The question is not morality, the question is money. That's what we're upset about. "

" When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same. "

" Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form. "

" Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war. "

" You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone. "

" My children are delightful people, whom I would love even if they weren't my children. "

" If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, you must be the one to write it. "

" One of my kids was born in 1968. There were going to be political difficulties, but they were never going to have that level of hatred and contempt that my brothers and my sister and myself were exposed to. "

" The body is ready to have babies. Nature wants it done then, when the body can handle it, not after 40, when the income can handle it. "

" Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another. "