The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose. Read Summary
I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually. Read Summary
There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now. Read Summary
Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours. Read Summary
Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor. Read Summary
An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience. Read Summary
A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled. Read Summary
The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in. Read Summary
The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated. Read Summary
People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead. Read Summary
It is only in his music, which Americans are able to admire because a protective sentimentality limits their understanding of it, that the Negro in America has been able to tell his story. Read Summary
When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living. Read Summary
The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him. Read Summary
It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind. Read Summary
Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters? Read Summary
Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it. Read Summary
It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have. Read Summary
Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch. Read Summary
To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time. Read Summary
Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law. Read Summary