“To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.”
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I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.
There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment the time is always now.
The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide.
I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.