"You can't rise as a class. You have to rise individually. It's what many of the civil rights-era people don't understand."

-- Alphonso Jackson

#Teamwork Quotes #Rights Quotes #Class Quotes

“It is easy for desire to be caught like a bird in a net, its wings fouled and twisted, no longer free to cross back and forth between silence and word. Desire may also find itself so amputated by tradition and community that it wanders in a void with nothing to orient it, to shape or discipline it. Desire must find ways to navigate its bitter and sweet paradox: it moves toward but also always through and beyond every object.”
“Sara could commit adultery at one end and weep for her sins at the other, and enjoy both operations at once.”
“reality can be magnificent even when life is not.”
“Minds are like oysters. They spoil if you pry them open.”
“I was born out of due time in the sense that by temperament and talent I should have been more suited for the life of a small Bach, living in anonymity and composing regularly for an established service and for God.”
“I wish I could be honest and true, but truth as I see it is not something abstract, a pious generality---It is justice at work, righteous, demanding, disciplined, sincere and unswerving; otherwise, it is not, it cannot be truth at all.”
“For while the tired waves, vainly breaking, Seem here no painful inch to gain, Far back, through creeks and inlets making, Comes silent, flooding in, the main. And not by eastern windows only, When daylight comes, comes in the light; In front the sun climbs slow, how slowly! But westward, look, the land is bright!”

Source : "Say Not the Struggle Nought Availeth" l. 15 (1855)
“If you're black in America, race is a factor in your life. Start with that assumption.”

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