My race groaned. It was our people falling. It was another lynching, yet another Black man hanging on a tree. One more woman ambus...hed and raped. A Black boy whipped and maimed. It was hounds on the trail of a man running through slimy swamps.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But the body fails us and the mirror knows, and we no longer insist that the gray hush be carried off its surface by the cloth, fo...r we have run to fat, and wrinkles encircle the eyes and notch the neck where the skin wattles, and the flesh of the arms hangs loose like an overlarge sleeve, veins thicken like ropes and empurple the body as though they had been drawn there by a pen, freckles darken, liver spots appear, the hair ... ah, the hair is exhausted and gray and lusterless, in weary rolls like cornered lint.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Tilting up his nose, He inhaled the rancid rosin, burly smells... Of dampened lumber, emanations blown From warehouse doors, the gustiness of ropes, Decays of sacks, and all the arrant stinks That helped him round his rude æsthetic out.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is the old brute, too, the savage, the hairy man who dabbles his fingers in ropes of entrails; and gobbles and belches; whos...e speech is guttural, visceral--well, he is here. He squats in me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The greatest blunders, like the thickest ropes, are often compounded of a multitude of strands. Take the rope apart, separate it i...nto the small threads that compose it, and you can break them one by one. You think, "That is all there was!" But twist them all together and you have something tremendous.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Going down for the last time, the last breath lying, I grapple with eels like ropes--it's ether, it's queer... and then, at last, it's done. Now the scavengers arrive, the hard crawlers who come to clean up the ocean floor.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The white man regards the universe as a gigantic machine hurtling through time and space to its final destruction: individuals in ...it are but tiny organisms with private lives that lead to private deaths: personal power, success and fame are the absolute measures of values, the things to live for. This outlook on life divides the universe into a host of individual little entities which cannot help being in constant conflict thereby hastening the approach of the hour of their final destruction.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »