Controversial Sayings

Had I anything to do with the negro, I would confine them by strict law to their own species, and put them on a national equalization.

I have looked into most philosophical systems and I have seen that none will work without God.

No one nor anything can silence me.

The greatest force is common blood. The Chinese belong to the yellow race because they come from the blood stock of the yellow race.

The orders of the generalissimo must be obeyed and Those who violate them are enemies of the people.

It was not clear to me that our course was unjustified. Even now I am not sure how historians will allocate the responsibility for the war.

A one-party system of government is an effective and safe instrument only when it operates in a socialist society.

I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive.

What a misfortune to be a woman! And yet, the worst misfortune is not to understand what a misfortune it is.

Although women can have even more potential and more talent than man, they always lack in judgment.

Violence is good for those who have nothing to lose.

The truth is, I am heartily sick of this life & of the nineteenth century in general. (I am convinced that every thing is going wrong).

Sex is the root of it all—the animal want, the eager physical hunger, Sex will not be put aside; it is a great ordination of the universe.

They shut me up in Prose — As when a little Girl / They put me in the Closet — Because they liked me 'still' —

Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.

Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic heart.

I never understood why when you died, you didn't just vanish, everything should just keep going on the way it was only you just wouldn't be there.

I now own that station. That is Black power.

If a woman can do the work as well, she is worth as much as a man.

It's awful to show one's knees when one doesn't have pretty knees.