A child of three cannot raise its chubby fist to its mouth to remove a piece of carpet which it is through eating, without being m...ade the subject of a psychological seminar of child-welfare experts, and written up, along with five hundred other children of three who have put their hands to their mouths for the same reason.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... in a capitalist society a man is expected to be an aggressive, uncompromising, factual, lusty, intelligent provider of goods, ...and the woman, a retiring, gracious, emotional, intuitive, attractive consumer of goods.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 »
Revolution begins with the self, in the self.... We'd better take the time to fashion revolutionary selves, revolutionary lives, r...evolutionary relationships. Mouth don't win the war.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have never been disappointed when I asked in a humble and sincere way for God's help. I pray often. I think I pray more often si...nce January 12th.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I cannot love anyone if I hate myself. That is the reason why we feel so extremely uncomfortable in the presence of people who are... noted for their special virtuousness, for they radiate an atmosphere of the torture they inflict on themselves. That is not a virtue but a vice.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »