You have to start with slavery because those abuses have never been eradicated. You know, people are not living in slums because they voted to. You know, their children are not in jail because they wanted them to. You know, these are the results of a people who have been oppressed and suffer national oppression, you know.
Jimmy Baldwin was not only a writer, an international literary figure: he was...
Jimmy Baldwin was the creator of contemporary American speech even before...
When I was saying, 'White people go to hell,' I never had trouble finding a...
My own thinking has evolved. You find Africanisms in American speech. You...
We should understand the impact that Malcolm had on the whole of American...
Alas, we have not yet the power to render completely sterile or make...
There will be, and should be, reams and reams of analysis, even praise, for...
I came to my Marxist view as a result of having struggled as a nationalist...
You might say that Richard Wagner was the Queen Victoria of Europe. He had...
Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We...
Let us take our children seriously! Everything else follows from this... only...
I don't have any regrets about not having had children. What's the point?...
I get along very well with animals and children. I dig them, I get them.
Our censorship has sort of gotten a little too far. Too much censorship is...
If anything, the children of Paris should be giving me even more money for...
There are several peculiarities that I share with children which, like having...
Writing for children hadn't occurred to me when I was younger, but nine years...
I have found that children are the most open-minded of all my audiences. They...
I hope some compromise will be entered into between the two parties, slavery...
I would have the Constitution torn in shreds and scattered to the four winds...
It is the maintenance of slavery by law in a state, not parallels of...
There is not only no free state which would now establish it, but there is no...
I speak on due consideration because Britain, France, and Mexico, have...
One of the most effective tools in Brazil's efforts to eradicate slavery is a...
The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us...
No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master...
Racism is an effect of slavery, not the other way around. Once slavery was...
In a word, if any kind of slavery can be vindicated by the Holy Scriptures,...
I used to make my grandparents pay a dollar to watch me sing 'Grease' songs...
But my family's really close and I was interested in what Mommy and Daddy did...
Sometimes I feel that the people I'm writing are more real to me than the...
The revolution will come from the people and the willingness to work towards...
For many years, I hated nature. As a student, I refused to put a plant...
You can't legislate or litigate good, healthy behavior but we must be willing...
I think every revolutionary act is an act of love. Every song that I've...
I thought I was going to be a theater actor. I moved to New York after...
I had a blast in the '90s, perhaps too much fun, and maybe I should have...
I'm no different than any other human being. I play music for a living, and...
