The confirmation of Clarence Thomas, one of the most conservative voices to be added to the [Supreme] Court in recent memory, carr...ies a sobering message for the African- American community.... As he begins to make his mark upon the lives of African Americans, we must acknowledge that his successful nomination is due in no small measure to the support he received from black Americans.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
...I am an abolitionist for the sake of my own race--Contact with the African degenerates our white race--I find the association w...ith them injurious to my child--keenly as I watch to prevent it & his faithful nurse to help me ... She is a good woman & so are many of them--Still the race is a degraded one ...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The writer in me can look as far as an African-American woman and stop. Often that writer looks through the African-American woman.... Race is a layer of being, but not a culmination.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The principal animals inhabiting the African jungle are moose, elks, and Knights of Pythias. Of course, you all know what a moose ...is, that's big game. The first day I shot two bucks. That was the biggest game we had.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Hispanic gives us all one ultimate paternal cultural progenitor: Spain. The diverse cultures already on the American shores when t...he Europeans arrived, as well as those introduced because of the African slave trade, are completely obliterated by the term. Hispanic is nothing more than a concession made by the U. S. legislature when they saw they couldn't get rid of us. If we won't go away, why not at least Europeanize us, make us presentable guests at the dinner table, take away our feathers and rattles and civilize us once and for all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... not all black women have silently acquiesced in sexism and misogyny within the African-American community. Indeed, many writer...s, activists, and other women have voiced their opposition and paid the price: they have been ostracized and branded as either man- haters or pawns of white feminists, two of the more predictable modes of disciplining and discrediting black feminists.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All great religions, in order to escape absurdity, have to admit a dilution of agnosticism. It is only the savage, whether of the ...African bush or the American gospel tent, who pretends to know the will and intent of God exactly and completely.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I don't think America's the center of the world anymore. I think African women will lead the way [in] ... women's liberation ... T...he African woman, she's got a country, she's got the flag, she's got her own army, got the navy. She doesn't have a racism problem. She's not afraid that if she speaks up, her man will say goodbye to her.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The sacrifice to Legba was completed; the Master of the Crossroads had taken the loas' mysterious routes back to his native Guinea.... Meanwhile, the feast continued. The peasants were forgetting their misery: dance and alcohol numbed them, carrying away their shipwrecked conscience in the unreal and shady regions where the savage madness of the African gods lay waiting.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A tanned skin is something more than respectable, and perhaps olive is a fitter color than white for a man,--a denizen of the wood...s. "The pale white man!" I do not wonder that the African pitied him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »