Daniel

“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!

“threats of war can frighten into submission no one who is determined to resist. They can only place the threat-makers in a more isolated and confused position.”
― Richard Wright, Black Power: The Color Curtain / Black Power / White Man, Listen!

“but what fascinated me would be the asparagus, tinged with ultramarine and rosy pink which ran from their heads, finely stippled in mauve and azure, through a series of imperceptible changes to their white feet, still stained a little by the soil of their garden-bed: a rainbow-loveliness that was not of this world.”
― Marcel Proust, SWANN'S WAY (Modern Classics Series): In Search of Lost Time (Du Côté De Chez Swann) - Philosophical and Aesthetic Masterpiece that Titillated Even Virginia Woolf's Desire for Expression

“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!