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If Christianity is true, then every argument will, if pursued to the end, lead to Jesus.

The Great Books Reader: Excerpts and Essays on the Most Influential Books in Western Civilization

To a born-again atheist like myself, it is clear that each of us has multiple selves, talents, perceptions. But to the Roman Catholic, unity is all.

At Home: Essays 1982-1988

There is such a thing as the poetry of a mistake, and when you say, "Mistakes were made," you deprive an action of its poetry, and you sound like a weasel.

Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction

Prejudice is not a symptom of stupidity. Nor is it a symptom of evil. It is merely a symptom of ignorance.

Black In America: Essays and Poems about Racism in America on The 50th Anniversary of The March on Selma.

It may be argued that the past is a country from which we have all emigrated, that its loss is part of our common humanity.

Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991

Millions of tears have fallen for black sons, brothers, lovers, and friends whose assailants took or maimed their lives and then simply went on their way.

Illuminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.

It becomes more and more difficult to avoid the idea of black men as subjects of not just racial profiling but of an insidious form of racial obliteration sanctioned by silence.

Illuminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.

Will you treat people who make you miserable, as prison guards, or travel agents?

My Thoughts Prefer Side Streets - Collected Essays and Other Reflections

We make fiction because we are fiction ... It lived us into being and it lives us still.

The Moment Under the Moment: Stories, a Libretto, Essays, and Sketches

I am the truth, since I am part of what is real, but neither more nor less than those around me.

The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination

An artist can respect the backfield of fact before which every human being stands and choose not to address those facts.

Magic Hours: Essays on Creators and Creation

All struggle, all resistance is -- must be -- concrete. And all struggle has a global resonance. If not here, then there. If not now, then soon. Elsewhere as well as here.

At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches

What gets me about the United States is that it pretends to be honest and therefore has so little room to move toward hope.

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

Raising Black children — female and male — in the mouth of a racist, sexist, suicidal dragon is perilous and chancy. If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they will probably not survive.

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

If this society ascribes roles to Black men which they are not allowed to fulfill, is it Black women who must bend and alter our lives to compensate, or is it society that needs changing?

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

True literature can exist only where it is created, not by diligent and trustworthy functionaries, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels, and skeptics.

A Soviet Heretic: Essays by Yevgeny Zamyatin

I cannot let my blood pressure rise because someone wishes to spread his or her bad day around, as if to dilute instead of multiply it.

Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft

I discuss my beliefs less because I bed my atheist, who cannot believe in much more sacred than our kisses.

Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft

Nothing in my beliefs tells me to let my relationship with the divine interfere with romantic love, the friction of sects never getting in the way of the friction of sex.

Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft

We are left at the brink of our future each day and the only real choice we have is not to jump but instead make our path through the briar.

Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft

Having ascended to some spiritual strength by focusing on the power of the feminine, it is no doubt tempting to wield this strength against that which triggers memories of having once been weaker.

Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft