Are you there, Africa with the bulging chest and oblong thigh? Sulking Africa, wrought of iron, in the fire, Africa of the million...s of royal slaves, deported Africa, drifting continent, are you there? Slowly you vanish, you withdraw into the past, into the tales of castaways, colonial museums, the works of scholars.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Perhaps having built a barricade when you're sixteen provides you with a sort of safety rail. If you've once taken part in buildin...g one, even inadvertently, doesn't its usually latent image reappear like a warning signal whenever you're tempted to join the police, or support any manifestation of Law and Order?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped... people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When the judge calls the criminal's name out he stands up, and they are immediately linked by a strange biology that makes them bo...th opposite and complementary. The one cannot exist without the other. Which is the sun and which is the shadow? It's well known some criminals have been great men.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in t...he memory, inaudible as a melody cut in a disc of flesh. A composer lets me hear a song that has always been shut up silent within me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The force of what was called Panther rhetoric or wordmongering resided not in elegant discourse but in strength of affirmation (or... denial), in anger of tone and timbre. When the anger led to action there was no turgidity or over-emphasis. Anyone who has witnessed political rows among the Whites ... will have to admit that the Whites aren't overburdened with poetic imagination.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man ... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideolog...y.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »