“Confronted with a range of negative hostility of this sort, knowing that the society of the Western world is so frantically defensive that it should seek to impose conformity at any price, what is an honest man to do? Should he keep silent and thereby try to win a degree of dubious safety for himself? Should he endorse a static defensiveness as the price for achieving his own personal security?
- White Man, Listen!, Richard Wright, 1957.
The game isn’t worth the candle, for, in doing so, he buttresses that which would eventually crush not only him, but that which would negate the very conditions of life out of which freedom can spring.
”- White Man, Listen!, Richard Wright, 1957.