There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them. – Andre Gide
To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company. – Andre Gide

There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them. – Andre Gide
To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company. – Andre Gide
A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective. – Andre Gide
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. – Andre Gide
My dear brother Barack Obama has a certain fear of free black men. As a young brother who grows up in a white context, brilliant African father, hes always had to fear being a white man with black skin. All he has known culturally is white. He has a certain rootlessness, a deracination. – Cornel West