“Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.”
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The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever.
Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings.
The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
