It will be a great day for America, incidentally, when we begin to eat bread again, instead of the blasphemous and tasteless foam rubber that we have substituted for it. And I am not being frivolous here, either. Something very sinister happens to the people of a country when they begin to distrust their own reactions as deeply as they do here, and become as joyless as they have become.

Whatever white people do not know about Negroes reveals, precisely and inexorably, what they do not know about themselves.

It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever b…

I do not know many Negroes who are eager to be 'accepted' by white people, still less to be loved by them; they, the blacks, simply don't wish to be beaten ove…

In the long run an opinion often borrows credit from the forbearance of its patrons.

Japan gets the most of ordinary people by organizing them to adapt and succeed. America, by getting out of their way so that they can adjust individually, allo…

I have experienced as violence the emergence of the culture of compulsory industrialised joy, which is the companion of consumerism.