Wallace Thurman famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The Negro and all things negroid had become a fad, and Harlem had become a shrine to which feverish pilgrimages were in order . . . Seventh Avenue was the gorge into which Harlem cliff dwellers crowded to promenade.
-- Wallace Thurman

#Order #Shrines #Fads
Color prejudice and religion are akin in one respect. Some folks have it and some don't, and the kernel that is responsible for it is present in us all.
-- Wallace Thurman

#Color #Prejudice #Responsible
We are mere journeymen, planting seeds for someone else to harvest.
-- Wallace Thurman

#Harvest #Planting Seeds
If but a few live coals are found in a mountain of ashes, no one should be disappointed. Genius is a rare quality in this world, and there is no reason why it should be more ubiquitous among Blacks than Whites.
-- Wallace Thurman

#Quality #Mountain #Coal
I cannot bear to associate with the ordinary run of people. I have to surround myself with individuals who for the most part are more than a trifle insane
-- Wallace Thurman

#Running #People #Insane
Being a Negro writer these days is a racket and I'm going to make the most of it while it lasts. About twice a year I sell a story. It is acclaimed. I am a genius in the making. Thank God for this Negro literary renaissance. Long may it flourish
-- Wallace Thurman

#Years #Long #Thank God

If the world were to end tomorrow and we could choose to save only one thing as the explanation and memorial to who we were, then we couldn't do better than the Natural History Museum, although it wouldn't contain a single human. The systematic Linnean order, the vast inquisitiveness and range of collated knowledge and beauty would tell all that is the best of us.
But it became clear as time went on that in Mr. Bush's mind the New World Order was founded on a convergence of goals and interests between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, so strong and permanent that they would work as a team through the U.N. Security Council.
I must stress here the point that I appreciate clarity, order, meaning, structure, rationality: they are necessary to whatever provisional stability we have, and they can be the agents of gradual and successful change.
The heart that once has been your shrine for other loves is too divine
Set yourself the bolder course. Keep your heart an open shrine.
Those are shrines. Some people believe spirits live in them.
The mystical nature of American consumption accounts for its joylessness. We spend a great deal of time in stores, but if we don't seem to take much pleasure in our buying, it's because we're engaged in the acts of sacrifice and self-definition. Abashed in the presence of expensive merchandise, we recognize ourselves . . . as suppliants admitted to a shrine.
Working in the entertainment industry exposes me to every current cosmetic fad.
Universities have come to realize that online is not a fad. The question is not whether to engage in this area but how to do it.
The Lord's truth is not altered by fads, trends or public opinion.

Wallace Thurman famous quotes

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