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King despaired. After nearly three years, his relationship with President Kennedy had run out of room. Although the movement needed federal intervention more than ever, realism told King he could not pressure President Kennedy an inch further. Brooding, he took the young Justice Department lawyer Thelton Henderson privately aside. “I’m concerned
... See moreTaylor Branch • Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years 1963-65
People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster. The time has come to realize that the interracial drama acted out on the American continent has not only created a new black man, it has created a new
... See moreJames Baldwin • Notes of a Native Son
I do admire the terror which Negroes are able to inspire in the hearts of some members of the white proletariat and only wish (This is a rather personal confession.) that I possessed the ability to similarly terrorize. The Negro terrorizes simply by being himself;I, however, must browbeat a bit in order to achieve the same end. Perhaps I should
... See moreWalker Percy • A Confederacy of Dunces
I had been afraid to do my best for fear my best would not be good enough.
William Seabrook • Asylum
What was the most difficult was the fact that I was forced to admit something I had always hidden from myself, which the American Negro has had to hide from himself as the price of his public progress; that I hated and feared white people. This did not mean that I loved black people; on the contrary, I despised them, possibly because they failed to
... See moreJames Baldwin • Notes of a Native Son
I am convinced that the Dreamers, at least the Dreamers of today, would rather live white than live free.
Ta-Nehisi Coates • Between the World and Me
My work with Jack demonstrates how a stifled life may express itself as death terror.
Irvin D. Yalom • Staring at the Sun
The amateur is terrified that if the tribe should discover who he really is, he will be kicked out into the cold to die.
Steven Pressfield • Turning Pro
“Fear of violent death,” he said, “is a bourgeois idea put upon you from the day you are born.”