Quotes about Insight

I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.

White people who wished to think well of themselves did not use the language of racial insult in front of black people. But the problem for us white people, as we finally had to understand, was that we could not be selectively complicit. To be complicit at all, even thoughtlessly by custom, was to be complicit in the whole extent and reach of the injustice. It is hard for customary indifference to utstick itself from the abominations to which it tacitly consents.

And I sat there trying to think, and failing, thinking only that whatever I would say was probably going to be a surprise to me.

He was looking at her from behind the smiling that wasn't smiling but was something you were not supposed to see beyond.

To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.

Literature has the same impact as a match lit in the middle of a field in the middle of the night. The match illuminates relatively little, but it enables us to see how much darkness surrounds it.

there's always somebody handy afterward to prove their foresight by your hindsight.

But I reckon Cora's right when she says the reason the Lord had to create women is because man dont know his own good when he sees it.

What's in a book is not what the author put into it, it's what the reader gets out of it.

I got vision; the rest of the world is wearing bifocals.

I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why

Our science is a drop, our ignorance a sea.