In dis world dey's many folks think dey's alive as ain't alive. Dey's alive accordin' to de whited sepulchers o' de world and dead... accordin' to de sperits o' de prophets. It's dem dey ought to cart away in hearses, brethren! It's dem dat's felt tingle within 'em de breath o' de Lawd, like a bird, like a maukin' in de woods, a song full o' warm honey, and all de same ain't follered de call, but has carried deir sperits in a hearse at de end o' de parade of de pomp o' de world. Hit's dem dat dade! Hit's dem dat's dade!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There's plenty men dat takes a wife lak dey do a joint uh sugar-cane. It's round, juicy an' sweet when dey gits it. But de squeeze... an' grind, squeeze an' grind an' wring tell dey wring every drop uh pleasure dat's in 'em out. When dey's satisfied dat dey is wrung dry, dey treats dem jes lak dey do a cane-chew. Dey throws 'em away. Dey knows whut dey is doin' while dey is at it, an hates theirselves fuh it but they keeps on hangin' after huh tell she's empty. Den dey hates huh fuh bein' a cane-chew an' in de way.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You are de cause of de brutality of these poor creeters. For you're de children of those who enslaved dem.... You are ready to hel...p de heathen in foreign lands, but don't care for the heathen right about you. I want you to sign petitions to send to Washington. Dey say there dey will do what de people want. The majority rules. If dey want anything good dey git it. If dey want anything not right dey git it too. You send these petitions, and those men in Congress will have something to spout about.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty, or death; if I could not have one, I would take de oder; for no man sho...uld take me alive; I should fight for my liberty as long as my strength lasted, and when de time came for me to go, de Lord would let dem take me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I had crossed de line of which I had so long been dreaming. I was free; but dere was no one to welcome me to de land of freedom. I... was a stranger in a strange land, and my home after all was down in de old cabin quarter, wid de ole folks, and my brudders and sisters. But to dis solemn resolution I came; I was free, and dey should be free also; I would make a home for dem in de North, and de Lord helping me, I would bring dem all dere.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As nature requires whirlwinds and cyclones to release its excessive force in a violent revolt against its own existence, so the sp...irit requires a demonic human being from time to time whose excessive strength rebels against the community of thought and the monotony of morality ... only by looking at those beyond its limits does humanity come to know its own utmost limits.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Immanuel Kant lived with knowledge as with his lawfully wedded wife, slept with it in the same intellectual bed for forty years an...d begot an entire German race of philosophical systems.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Only the rare expands our minds, only as we shudder in the face of a new force do our feelings increase. Therefore the extraordina...ry is always the measure of all greatness. And the creative element always remains the value superior to all others and the mind superior to our minds.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
With Nietzsche, the black pirates' flag appears for the first time on the high sea of German knowledge. (He is) a different man, f...rom a different race, (his,) a new kind of heroism, philosophy ... with bellicose weapons and armor.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Art knows no happier moment than the opportunity to show the symmetry of an extreme, during that moment of spheric harmony when th...e dissonance dissolves for the blink of an eye, dissolves into a blissful harmony, when the most extreme opposites, coming together from the greatest alienation, fleetingly touch with lips of the word and of love.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »