Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is tr...uly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... if we can imagine the art of fiction come alive and standing in our midst, she would undoubtedly bid us to break her and bully... her, as well as honour and love her, for so her youth is renewed and her sovereignty assured.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I turn my head to sky rains falling, wash the wounds of numbness from my soul.... Turn my heart in tides of fierce renewal, where love and rage run whole. Come drink deep.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For since death came through a human being, the resurrection of the dead has also come through a human being; for as all die in Ad...am, so all will be made alive in Christ.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In nature, all is useful, all is beautiful. It is therefore beautiful, because it is alive, moving, reproductive; it is therefore ...useful, because it is symmetrical and fair. Beauty will not come at the call of a legislature, nor will it repeat in England or America its history in Greece. It will come, as always, unannounced, and spring up between the feet of brave and earnest men.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
MAMA: Son--how come you talk so much 'bout money? WALTER: Because it is life, Mama!... MAMA: Oh--So now it's life. Money is life. Once upon a time freedom used to be life--now it's money. I guess the world really do change ... WALTER: No--it was always money, Mama. We just didn't know about it. MAMA: No ... something has changed. You something new, boy. In my time we was worried about not being lynched and getting to the North if we could and how to stay alive and still have a pinch of dignity too.... Now here come you and Beneatha--talking 'bout things we ain't never even thought about hardly, me and your daddy. You ain't satisfied or proud of nothing we done. I mean that you had a home; that we kept you out of trouble till you was grown; that you don't have to ride to work on the back of nobody's streetcar--You my children--but how different we done become.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate ... ...but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I didn't think I'd come out alive; in fact, I was seeing death. But I was prepared to die as long as I died for the truth, and I k...new that people would know that this was the case.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Every boy was supposed to come into the world equipped with a father whose prime function was to be our father and show us how to ...be men. He can escape us, but we can never escape him. Present or absent, dead or alive, real or imagined, our father is the main man in our masculinity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And they tell me you are brutal and my reply is: On the faces of women and children I have seen the marks of wanton hunger....r />And having answered so I turn once more to those who sneer at this my city, and I give them back the sneer and say to them: Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »