People/B
The quotations of
American writer
1924–1987
20 quotes, most often on Race, God and Freedom.
Whatever white people do not know about Negroes reveals, precisely and inexorably, what they do not know about themselves.
All over Harlem, Negro boys and girls are growing into stunted maturity, trying desperately to find a place to stand; and the wonder is not that so many are ruined but that so many survive.
If the word integration means anything, this is what it means: that we, with love, shall force our brothers to see themselves as they are, to cease fleeing from reality and begin to change it.