I dislike it when instead of saying Jew they say Hebrew or Israelite, or Semite, I do not like it and why should a Negro want to be called colored. Why should we want to lose being a Negro... I have stated that a noun to me is a stupid thing, if you know a thing and its name why bother about it but you have to know its name to talk about it. Well its name is Negro if it is a Negro and Jew if it is a Jew and both of them are nice strong names and so let us keep them. ~ Ch. 4

Explanations are clear but since no one to whom a thing is explained can connect the explanations with what is really clear, therefore clear explanations are n…

Since it could be done what was the use of doing it, and anyway you always have to stop doing something sometime. ~ Ch. 4

It is a difficult thing to like anybody else's ideas of being funny. ~ Ch. 3

Why refer to Lady Crack Pipe or Good Sir Dishrag when these things could never live up to all that their sex implied?

'Happens to be.' 'He happens to be black.' Like it's a fucking accident, you know. He happens to be black? Yes, he happens to be black. Ah, yes, yes, yes. He h…

Among the words that can be all things to all men, the word 'race' has a fair claim to being the most common, most ambiguous and most explosive. No one today w…