Daniel

“in spite of having witnessed the birth of the telephone they decline to believe in the aeroplane.”
― Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time, Vol. II: Within a Budding Grove (Modern Library Classics)

“As the importance of ideology declined, I began to feel that maybe ideology was a weapon that suited only certain hostile conditions of life.”
― Richard Wright, Black Power: The Color Curtain / Black Power / White Man, Listen!

“One of the greatest ironies of the twentieth century is that when communication has reached its zenith, when the human voice can encircle the globe in a matter of seconds, when man can project the image of his face thousands of miles, it is almost impossible to know with any degree of accuracy the truth of a political situation only a hundred miles distant! Propaganda jams the media of communication.”
― Richard Wright, Black Power: The Color Curtain / Black Power / White Man, Listen!

“In many instances Christianity provides Communism with its justification. Communism is paying the unpaid bills of the Christian church.”
― Richard Wright, Black Power: The Color Curtain / Black Power / White Man, Listen!