To be black and an intellectual in America is to live in a box. On the box is a label, not of my own choosing.
“Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.”
“The bosses of our mass media, press, radio, film and television, succeed in their aim of taking our minds off disaster. Thus, the distraction they offer demands the antidote of maximum concentration on disaster.”