However Painful It May Be For Me

The Church In The Colonies Is The White People's Church, The Foreigner's Church. She Does Not Call The Native To God's Ways But To The Ways Of The White Man, Of The Master, Of The Oppressor.

Hate Demands Existence, And He Who Hates Has To Show His Hate In Appropriate Actions And Behaviors; In A Sense, He Has To Become Hate. That Is Why The Americans Have Substituted Discrimination For Lynching.

The Colonized Is Elevated Above His Jungle Status In Proportion To His Adoption Of The Mother Country's Cultural Standards.

What I Call Middle-class Society Is Any Society That Becomes Rigidified In Predetermined Forms, Forbidding All Evolution, All Gains, All Progress, All Discovery. I Call Middle-class A Closed Society In Which Life Has No Taste, In Which The Air Is Tainted, In Which Ideas And Men Are Corrupt. And I Think That A Man Who Takes A Stand Against This Death Is In A Sense A Revolutionary.

Introducing Someone As A "negro Poet With A University Degree" Or Again, Quite Simply, The Expression, "a Great Black Poet." These Ready-made Phrases, Which Seem In A Common-sense Way To Fill A Need-or Have A Hidden Subtlety, A Permanent Rub.