“I can be most colorful and inventive when I am angry.”
“And all the colors I am inside have not been invented yet.”
“When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time.”
“At Spezia when I am angry I go full of smoke inside, but when you make me angry I see everything.”
“I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background........Beside the waters of the Hudson" I feel my race. Among the thousand white persons, I am a dark rock surged upon, and overswept, but through it all, I remain myself. When covered by the waters, I am; and the ebb but reveals me again." How It Feels to Be Colored Me”
“I am...sad and angry. Why is my spirit so sad and angry? I look back at my life and all I can remember is rage and rage and rage.”