Mark them!

It is fashionable to do so; but there was a time when to pronounce against England, and in favor of the cause of the colonies, tried men’s souls.

It is the birthday of your National Independence, and of your political freedom.

Should I seem at ease, my appearance would much misrepresent me.

We reasoned with him. “My dear fellow,” we said, “think of all the pain and trouble you are causing to us!”

Well, that’s all for this morning, thank God.”

wild with glee

a puny wisp of a man, with a shaven head and vague liquid eyes.

it is especially concerned with the scrapping of every word or idiom which has outworn its usefulness.

These save the trouble of picking out appropriate verbs and nouns, and at the same time pad each sentence with extra syllables which give it an appearance of symmetry.

A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, and then fail all the more completely because he drinks.

anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence long after that in-nocence is dead turns himself into a monster.

on the fact that white men are the creators of civilization

There are the childrenwho make those delightful, hilarious, sometimes astonishingly grave over-tures of friendship in the unpredictable fashion of children; other children,having been taught that the devil is a black man, scream in genuine anguishas I approach.

No one, after all, can be liked whose human weight and complexity can-not be, or has not been, admitted.

On the other hand, thevillagers are able, presumably, to come and go as they please—which they do:

I’m happy to own all of it.

The music you travel with helps you to create your own internal weather

I am black like him;

ho is considered in some way inferior by Swiss villagers, many of whom have never travelled.

Disposition:

since pre-modern societies did not divide human beings on grounds of skin color

hear you, hear me—we two—you, me, talk on this page.   

So will my page be colored that I write?   

Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love.   

I saw, for the first time, the restaurant, the people with their mouths open, already, as it seemed to me, rising as one man, and I realized what I had done, and where I was, and I was frightened.

My father could scarcely disagree but during the four or five years of our relatively close association he never trusted her and was always trying to surprise in her open,

unabating tension which emanated from him caused our minds and our tongues to become paralyzed, so that he, scarcely knowing why, flew intoa rage and the child, not knowing why, was punished. If it ever entered hishead to bring a surprise home for his children, it was, almost unfailingly,

When he was dead I realized that I had hardly ever spoken to him. When he had been dead a long time I began to wish I had.