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Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.Collection: W
Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.Collection: W
It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it. In England, one feels all the social restraints holding one back. But here, anything can happen.Collection: W
If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away.Collection: W
No hero is mortal till he dies.Collection: W
Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession.Collection: W
In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they like, but he must never, never be unfaithful to them.Collection: W
The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.Collection: W
You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation between two people.Collection: W
I don't get acting jobs because of my looks.Collection: W
It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.Collection: W
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him.Collection: W
I had a happy childhood and acceptance in the community.Collection: W
For the Negro, Andrew Johnson did less than nothing when once he realized that the chief beneficiary of labor and economic reform in the South would be freedmen. His inability to picture Negroes as men made him oppose efforts to give them land; oppose national efforts to educate them; and above all things, oppose their rights to vote.Collection: W
My autobiography is a digressive illustration and exemplification of what race has meant in the world in the 19th and 20th centuries.Collection: W
If the leading Negro classes cannot assume and bear the uplift of their own proletariat, they are doomed for all time. It is not a case of ethics; it is a plain case of necessity. The method by which this may be done is, first, for the American Negro to achieve a new economic solidarity.Collection: W
My great-grandfather fought with the Colonial Army in New England in the American Revolution.Collection: W
How hard a thing is life to the lowly, and yet how human and real!Collection: W
It is African scholars themselves who will create the ultimate Encyclopaedia Africana.Collection: W
Strange, is it not, my brothers, how often in America those great watchwords of human energy - 'Be strong!' 'Know thyself!' 'Hitch your wagon to a star!' - how often these die away into dim whispers when we face these seething millions of black men? And yet do they not belong to them? Are they not their heritage as well as yours?Collection: W
I am an earnest advocate of manual training and trade teaching for black boys, and for white boys, too.Collection: W
In the Constitution of the United States, Negroes are referred to as fellows although the word 'slave' is carefully avoided before the thirteenth amendment.Collection: W
From the very first, it has been the educated and intelligent of the Negro people that have led and elevated the mass, and the sole obstacles that nullified and retarded their efforts were slavery and race prejudice; for what is slavery but the legalized survival of the unfit and the nullification of the work of natural internal leadership?Collection: W
I drink therefore I am.Collection: W
I never met a kid I liked.Collection: W
I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.Collection: W