I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro. This is a passionately racist country; it will continue to be so in the foreseeable future. Susan Sontag americaamericancommit Change image and share on social
AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder. Susan Sontag aidconsequencedire Change image and share on social
Lying is an elementary means of self-defense. Susan Sontag defenseelementarylie Change image and share on social
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought. Susan Sontag bookfunnypiece Change image and share on social
Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility. Susan Sontag criticentireentitle Change image and share on social
Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of the signs that it is typically bourgeois. Susan Sontag bourgeoisdisaffectionmilitant Change image and share on social
The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons. Susan Sontag abstractfamousindependent Change image and share on social
In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it. Susan Sontag americainventpast Change image and share on social
Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics. Susan Sontag activelylunaticmad Change image and share on social
Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims. Susan Sontag attacheblameevil Change image and share on social
