Has it not occurred to you that you have no right to go, unless you are equally willing to be prevented from going?—1
The coffee looked very harsh, very direct, and of a mean color, but I drank some, because the tonic was gone, now, and I had to do something. I don’t smoke—2
The perpetration of any voluptuous act whatever is a matter of indifference—3
Senators leap up and bray for the Death Penalty with inflexible authority of virus yen… Death for dope fiends, death for sex queens (I mean fiends) death for the psychopath who offends the cowed and graceless flesh with broken animal innocence of lithe movement…. The Liberal Press and The Press Not So Liberal and The Press Reactionary Scream approval: “Above all the myth of other-level experience must be eradicated…” And speak darkly of certain harsh realities… cows with the aftosa… prophylaxis—4
The spectacle of the State doing everything in its power to degrade, debase, and destroy a human being, and then seeking to help him to recover from the effects of his punishments is a fine example of the idiocy of man—5
Hollywood is the new plantation, getting more chic with the times—6
In spite of their fear, they reacted to an oppressive oddity, or what they called evil days, with an acceptance that bordered on welcome. Such evil must be avoided, they felt, and precautions must naturally be taken to protect themselves from it. But they let it run its course, fulfill itself, and never invented ways either to alter it, to annihilate it or to prevent its happening again. So also were they with people—7
On two days, it steads not to run from thy grave, / The appointed, and the unappointed day; / On the first, neither balm nor physician can save, / Nor thee, on the second, the Universe slay—8
When he was born I knew that motherhood was invented by someone who had to have a word for it because the ones that had the children didn’t care whether there was a word for it or not—9
It comes from something further down and wayer out than I think you dream of… man—10
I long ago lost a hound, a bay horse and a turtledove, and am still on their trail. Many are the travelers I have spoken to concerning them, describing their tracks, and what calls they answered to. I have met one or two who have heard the hound, and the tramp of the horse, and even seen the dove disappear behind a cloud; and they seemed as anxious to recover them as if they had lost them themselves—11
And don’t you know it, once I shut up, once I got my own voice all stilled, then I heard it… God don’t sound like no coal train come howling down from the driftmouth, God don’t sound like heavy weather, God don’t sound like God—12
What integration seems to mean to many white people is that a very small number of other people will be accepted into white communities and institutions, where they will be “tolerated”—13
Cynicism is not revolutionary—14
For Marcion, the basic problem is eminently simple. A reading of the Old and New Testaments (it is to Marcion himself that we owe these terms…) shows two universes, two incompatible orders. The Gospels reveal a God of love and goodness, whose Son has come down to earth for the express purpose of saving men and teaching them fraternity, mercy and love for their neighbors. The Old Testament, on the other hand—15
We are now at the end of our extraordinarily prolonged adolescence. The time has come for us to grow up—16
RW Emerson
D Baker
Basilides
W Burroughs
C Darrow
b hooks
T Morrison
W Faulkner
S Krim
HD Thoreau
CE Morgan
E Biss
A Baraka
J Lacarriere
J Baldwin