We put [young children] into kindergarten where their reasoning powers are ruined; or, if we can afford it, we buy Montessori outf...its that were invented for semi-imbeciles in Italian slums; or we send them to outdoor schools and give them prizes for sleeping.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the... artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No wealth can buy the requisite leisure, freedom, and independence which are the capital in this profession. It comes only by the ...grace of God. It requires a direct dispensation from Heaven to become a walker. You must be born into the family of the Walkers. Ambulator nascitur, non fit.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, n...either shall they learn war any more.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... there is a dangerous trend observable in some quarters of the Movement to program Sapphire out of her "evil" ways into a cover...-up, shut-up, lay-back-and-be-cool obedience role. She is being assigned an unreal role of mute servant that supposedly neutralizes the acidic tension that exists between Black men and Black women. She is being encouraged--in the name of revolution no less--to cultivate "virtues" that if listed would sound like the personality traits of slaves.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
all ignorance toboggans into know and trudges up to ignorance again:... but winter's not forever, even snow melts; and if spring should spoil the game, what then?