It is a measure of the Negro's circumstance that, in America, the smallest things usually take him so very long, and that, by the time he wins them, they are no longer little things: they are miracles.


Part of Our Time: Some Ruins and Monuments of the Thirties (ed. New York Review of Books, 2012) - ISBN: 9781590175446

Murray Kempton Quotes

It is a measure of the Negro's circumstance that, in America, the smallest things usually take him so very long, and that, by the time he wins them,...

It is a measure of the Negro's circumstance that, in America, the smallest things usually take him so very long, and that, by the time he wins them,...

It is a measure of the Negro's circumstance that, in America, the smallest things usually take him so very long, and that, by the time he wins them,...

It is a measure of the Negro's circumstance that, in America, the smallest things usually take him so very long, and that, by the time he wins them,...