Yes, but what are all these guises, aspects presentations? Only manifestations of what we all are at different times, according to... how these needs are pulled out of us. I write in these bald words the deepest lessons of my life, the truest substance of what I have learned. I am not only a Chronicler of Zone Three, or only partially, for I also share in Al*Ith's condition of being ruler insofar as I can write of her, describe her. I am woman with her (though I am a man) as I write of her femaleness--and Dabeeb's. I am Ben Ata when I summon him into my mind and try to make him real. I am ... what I am at the moment I am that.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To abolish a status, which in all ages God has sanctioned, and man has continued, would not only be robbery to an innumerable clas...s of our fellow-subjects; but it would be extreme cruelty to the African Savages, a portion of whom it saves from massacre, or intolerable bondage in their own country, and introduces into a much happier state of life; especially now when their passage to the West-Indies and their treatment there is humanely regulated.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
These women behind the store windows? Dreams, sir, dreams at bargain prices, a trip to the Indies! These people perfume themselves... with spices. You enter, they close the curtains, and the trip begins. The gods descend on the nude bodies and the islands drift, demented, with the tousled hair of palm trees in the breeze.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Know that, on the right hand of the Indies, there is an island called California, very near to the Terrestrial Paradise, which was... peopled with black women.... Their arms were all of gold.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Look for me all around you, for with God's grace, I shall come and bring with me countless millions of Black slaves who have died ...in America and the West Indies and the millions in Africa to aid you in the fight for Liberty, Freedom and Life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Many heroes lived before Agamemnon; but all are unknown and unwept, extinguished in everlasting night, because they have no spirit...ed chronicler.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As the Spanish proverb says, "He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry the wealth of the Indies with him." So ...it is in travelling; a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is my duty to prevent, through the independence of Cuba, the U.S.A. from spreading over the West Indies and falling with added ...weight upon other lands of Our America. All I have done up to now and shall do hereafter is to that end.... I know the Monster, because I have lived in its lair--and my weapon is only the slingshot of David.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »