Jay Saunders Redding famous quotes

The final test of Afro-American studies will be the extent to which they rid the minds of whites and blacks alike of false learning, and the extent to which they promote for blacks and whites alike a completely rewarding participation in American life.
-- Jay Saunders Redding

#Mind #Finals #Afros

The pathos of man is that he hungers for personal fulfillment and for a sense of community with others.
-- Jay Saunders Redding

#Men #Community #Hunger

I would not know the thing I sought until I found it. It was both something within and something without myself. Within, it was like the buried memory of a name that will not come to the tongue for utterance.
-- Jay Saunders Redding

#Memories #Names #Utterance

The writer's ultimate purpose is to use his gifts to develop man's awareness of himself so that he, man, can become a better instrument for living together with other men. This sense of identity is the root by which all honest creative effort is fed.
-- Jay Saunders Redding

#Men #Roots #Effort

From adolescence to death there is something very personal about being a Negro in America.
-- Jay Saunders Redding

#America #Adolescence

There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.

Why should you mind being wrong if someone can show you that you are?

The holocaust is the solution to the Jews final question

Advertising in the final analysis should be news. If it is not news it is worthless.

It belongs to the self-respect of intellect to pursue every tangle of thought to its final unravelment.

We are not only a Latin American nation, we are an Afro-American nation also.

The Afro-American is not a ***** race.

For the Afro-American in the 1920's being a 'New Negro' was being 'Modern'. And being an 'New Negro' meant, largely, not being an 'Old Negro', disassociating oneself from the symbols and legacy of slavery - being urbane, assertive militant.

I had the afro when I was in high school. I had the flattop during a short period in the early '90s. And I've had different variations of dreadlocks. I'll admit to those!

The final test of Afro-American studies will be the extent to which they rid the minds of whites and blacks alike of false learning, and the extent to which they promote for blacks and whites alike a completely rewarding participation in American life.