The completeness of this transformation appalled me. It was unlike anything I had imagined. I became two men, the serving one, and the one who panicked, who felt Negroid even to the depths of my entrails. I felt the beginings… — John Howard Griffin Copy Share Image
“We led strange, hidden lives. We were advocating one thing: that this country rid itself of the racism that prevented some citizens from living… — John Howard Griffin Copy Share Image
“I remained in my room more and more each day. The situation in Montgomery was so strange I decided to try passing back into… — John Howard Griffin Copy Share Image
The Negro. The South. These are the details. The real story is the universal one of men who destroy the souls of other men… — John Howard Griffin Copy Share Image
“All human beings face the same fundamental problems of loving and of suffering, of striving toward human aspirations for themselves and their children, of… — John Howard Griffin Copy Share Image
“I knew, and every black man there knew, that I, as a man now white once again, could say the things that needed saying… — John Howard Griffin Copy Share Image
“The delusion lies in the fact that no matter how well we think we know the Other, we still judge from within the imprisoning… — John Howard Griffin Copy Share Image
“Many otherwise decent men and women could find no other solution. They are willing to degrade themselves to their basest levels to prevent the… — John Howard Griffin Copy Share Image
“We need a conversion of morals," the elderly man said. "Not just superficially, but profoundly. And in both races. We need a great saint-some… — John Howard Griffin Copy Share Image
“Some wanted to know where they could find girls, wanted us to get Negro girls for them. We learned to spot these from the… — John Howard Griffin Copy Share Image
“God is invoked … and He is invoked against the God of the spirit, of intelligence and love - excluding and hating this God.… — John Howard Griffin Copy Share Image
“...[C]ulture-learned behavior patterns so deeply engrained they produce unconscious involuntary reactions-is a prison.” — John Howard Griffin Copy Share Image
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