We have got to stop the nervous Nellies and the Toms from going to the Man's place. I don't believe in killing, but a good whippin...g behind the bushes wouldn't hurt them.... These bourgeoisie Negroes aren't helping. It's the ghetto Negroes who are leading the way.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The loneliest feeling in the world is when you think you are leading the parade and turn to find that no one is following you. No ...president who badly misguesses public opinion will last very long.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
New York is the biggest mouth in the world. It appears to be prime example of the herd instinct, leading the universal urban consp...iracy to beguile man from his birthright (the good ground), to hang him by his eyebrows from skyhooks above hard pavement, to crucify him, sell him, or be sold by him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Science and art are only too often a superior kind of dope, possessing this advantage over booze and morphia: that they can be ind...ulged in with a good conscience and with the conviction that, in the process of indulging, one is leading the "higher life."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Poetry operates by raising our curiosity, engaging the mind by degrees to take an interest in the event, keeping that event suspen...ded, and surprising at last with an unexpected catastrophe. The painter's art is more confirmed, and has nothing that corresponds with, or perhaps is equivalent to, this power and advantage of leading the mind on, till attention is totally engaged. What is done by painting must be done at one blow; curiosity has received at once all the satisfaction it can ever have. There are, however, other intellectual qualities and dispositions which the painter can satisfy and affect as powerfully as the poet; among those we may reckon our love of novelty, variety, and contrast.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Natural selection, the blind, unconscious, automatic process which Darwin discovered, and which we now know is the explanation for... the existence and apparently purposeful form of all life, has no purpose in mind. It has no mind and no mind's eye. It does not plan for the future. It has no vision, no foresight, no sight at all. If it can be said to play the role of the watchmaker in nature, it is the blind watchmaker.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Things base and vile, holding no quantity, Love can transpose to form and dignity.... Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But love is blind, and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit,... For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »