The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.
The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.
What I’m fighting for now in my work… for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poems I could take into a tavern, into the street, into the halls of a housing project.
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.
As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.
Black people comprehend the South. We understand its weight. It has rested on our backs… I knew that my heart would break if ever I put my foot down on that soil, moist, still, with old hurts. I had to face the fear/loathing at its source or it would consume me whole.
The hope, the hope that lives in the breast of the black American, is just so tremendous that it overwhelms me sometimes.
Living in a state of terror was new to many white people in America, but black people have been living in a state of terror in this country for more than 400 years.
Until blacks and whites see each other as brother and sister, we will not have parity. It’s very clear.
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