Quotes by Writers

An American, a Negro... two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder. W. E. B. Du Bois

Alone Strength Thoughts Dark Asunder Torn Ideals Souls Dogged American Being Body Warring Whose Keeps Two

Reconstruction was a vast labor movement of ignorant, muddled, and bewildered white men who had been disinherited of land and labor and fought a long battle with sheer subsistence, hanging on the edge of poverty, eating clay and chasing slaves and now lurching up to manhood. W. E. B. Du Bois

Battle Men Long Chasing Poverty Edge White Reconstruction Eating Clay Vast Had Bewildered Sheer Been Up Labor Labor Movement Hanging Subsistence Movement Manhood Land Muddled Ignorant Who Fought Now Slaves

The Negro race, like all races, is going to be saved by its exceptional men. The problem of education, then, among Negroes must first of all deal with the Talented Tenth; it is the problem of developing the Best of this race that they may guide the Mass away from the contamination and death of the Worst, in their own and other races. W. E. B. Du Bois

Education Death Best Problem Men First Own Saved Other Guide Negroes Worst All Races Must Exceptional Developing Tenth Mass Contamination Talented Like First Of All Deal Going May Race Races Then Away Among

We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away. Walker Percy

Love Those Worst Faces Know Turn Us Who Away

For example, the equivalent of a woman being treated as a sex object is a man being treated as a success object. Warren Farrell

Success Man Woman Sex Example Object For Example Equivalent Being Treated

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years. Washington Irving

Age Matter Feeling Years

Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions. William Arthur Ward

Humanity Makes Afflictions Either Breeds

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity. William Ellery Channing

Knowledge Dignity Quality Mind Determines Quantity Which

Each of us is meant to have a character all our own, to be what no other can exactly be, and do what no other can exactly do. William Ellery Channing

Character Own Other Our Exactly Us Meant Each

The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet. William Gibson

Wisdom Future Distributed Arrived Just

I see no reason why the artistic world can't absolutely merge with Madison Avenue. Pop art is a move in that direction. Why can't we have advertisements with beautiful words and beautiful images? William S. Burroughs

I am getting so far out one day I won't come back at all. William S. Burroughs

Day Back One Day Out Come Am Getting Far

Most people don't see what's going on around them. That's my principal message to writers: 'For God's sake, keep your eyes open. Notice what's going on around you.' William S. Burroughs

God You Eyes People See Writers Open Most Message Principal Around Sake Going Them Notice Your Keep

Visual art and writing don't exist on an aesthetic hierarchy that positions one above the other, because each is capable of things the other can't do at all. Sometimes one picture is equal to 30 pages of discourse, just as there are things images are completely incapable of communicating. William S. Burroughs

Which came first the intestine or the tapeworm? William S. Burroughs

First Came Which

I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds. Quentin Crisp

I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum. Quentin Crisp

People Other Pleasantly Minimum Recommend Scant Involvement Limiting Lives