Lesson1
1. The job of arousing manhood within a people that have been taught for so many centuries that they are nobody is not easy.
It is no easy job to educate a people who have been told over centuries that they were inferior and of no importance to see that they are humans, the same as any other people.
2. Psychological freedom, a firm sense of self-esteem, is the most powerful weapon against the long night of physical slavery.
If you break the mental shackles imposed on you by white supremacists, if you really respect yourself, thinking that you are a Man, equal to anyone else, you will be able to take part in the struggle against racial discrimination.
3. The Negro will only be free when he reaches down to the inner depths of his own being and signs with the pen and ink of assertive manhood his own emancipation proclamation.
The liberation of mind can only be achieved by the Negro himself/herself. Only when he/she is fully convinced that he/she is a Man/Woman and is not inferior to anyone else, can he/she throw off the manacles of self-abnegation and become free.
4. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.
Power in the best form of function is the carrying out of the demands of justice with love and justice in the best form of function is the overcoming of everything standing in the way of love with power.
5. At that time economic status was considered the measure of the individual’s ability and talents.
At that time, the way to evaluate how capable and resourceful a person was to see how much money he had made (or how wealthy he was).
6. …the absence of worldly goods indicated a want of industrious habits and moral fiber.
A person was poor because he was lazy and not hard-working and lacked a sense of right and wrong.
7. It is not the work of slaves driven to their tasks either by the task, by the taskmaster, or by animal necessity.
This kind of work cannot be done by slaves who work because the work has to be done, because they are forced to work by slave-drivers or because they need to work in order to be fed and clothed.
8. …when the unjust measurement of human worth on the scale of dollars is eliminated.
…when the unfair practice of judhing human calue by the amount of money a person has irs done away with.
9. He who hates does not know God, but he who has love has the key that unlocks the door to the meaning of ultimate reality.
Those who harbor hate in their hearts cannot grasp the teachings of God. Only those who have love can enjoy the ultimate happiness in Heaven.
10. Let us be dissatisfied until America will no longer have a high blood pressure of creeds and an anemia of deeds.
Let us be dissatisfied until America no longer only talk about racial equality but is unwilling or reluctant to take action to end such evil practice as racial discrimination.
Lesson 1
1. A white lie is better than a black lie.
一个无关紧要的谎言总比一个恶意的谎言要好。
2. To upset this cultural homicide, the Negro must rise up with an affirmation of his own Olympian manhood.
为了挫败各种蓄意培植的低人一等的心态，黑人必须直起腰来宣布自己高贵的人格。
3. …with a spirit straining toward true self-esteem, the Negro must throw off the manacles of self-abnegation…黑人必须一种竭尽全力自尊自重的精神，大胆抛弃自我克制的枷锁。
4. What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic.必须懂得没有爱的权利是毫无节制的、易被滥用的，而没有权利的爱则是多愁善感、脆弱无力的。 5. It is precisely this collision of immoral power with powerless morality which constitutes the major crisis of our times.正是这种邪恶的权利和没有权势的道义的冲突构成了我们时代的主要危机。
6. Now early in this century this proposal would have been greeted with ridicule and denunciation, as destructive of initiative and responsibility.
在本世纪之初，这种建议会受到嘲笑和谴责，认为它对主动性和责任感其负面作用。
7. The fact is that the work which improves the condition of mankind, the work which extends knowledge and increases power and enriched literature and elevates thought, is not done to secure a living.事实上，人们从事改善人类出镜的工作，从事传播知识、增强实力、丰富文学财富以及升华思想的工作并不是为了谋生。
8. …it can spend billions of dollars to put God’s children on their own two feet right here on earth.它能够花费几十亿美元帮助上帝的孩子自立于这个世界。
9. Furthermore, few if any violent revolutions have been successful unless the violent minority had the sympathy and support of the nonresistant majority.除非主张暴力的少数人得到大多数人的同情与支持，不和他们对抗，否则，暴力革命很少或者说几乎没有成功的。
10. Let us realize the arc of the moral universe is long but is bends towards justice. 我们要懂得道义的苍穹长又长，但它终将落向正义。
Lesson2
1. I pictured this prodigy part of me as many different images, trying each one on for size.
I imagined myself as different types of prodigy, trying to find out which one
suited me the best.
2. I had new thoughts , willful thoughts, or rather thoughts filled with lots of won’ts. I had new thoughts, which were filled with a strong spirit of disobedience and rebellion.
3. The girl had the sauciness of a Shirley Temple.
The girl was Shirley Temple—like, slightly rude but in an amusing way.
4. It felt like worms and toads and slimy things crawling out of my chest, but it also felt good, as if this awful side of me had surfaced, at last.
When I said those words, I felt that some very nasty thoughts had got out of my chest, and so T felt scared. But at the same time I felt good, relieved, because those nasty things had been suppressed in my heart for some time and they had got out at last.
5. And T could sense her anger rising to its breaking point. I wanted to see it spill over.
I could feel that her anger had reached the point where her self—control would collapse, and I wanted to see what my mother would do when she lost complete control of herself.
6. The lid to the piano was closed, shutting out the dust, my misery, and her dreams. When the lid to the piano was closed, it shut out the dust and also put an end to my misery. Lesson 2
1. 我的头发没有做出我要的大卷花， 而是给我弄成一头乱蓬蓬的黑色小卷毛。 2. 在她告诉我答案前， 她对了对手中的杂志，看看赫尔辛基是否能这样发音。 3. 她似乎被这音乐吸引住了。这钢琴曲不长， 但有点狂乱，有着迷人的特点，乐曲一开始时快节奏的，接着是欢快跳动的节拍，然后又回到嬉戏的部分。 4. 如果她的才气和她的脾气一样大，她早就出名了。
5. 我最喜欢练习的部分是花哨的谢幕行礼的动作：先出右脚，脚尖点在地毯的玫瑰图案上，身子侧摆，左腿弯曲，抬头，微笑。
6. 一股凉气从头顶开始， 然后一点点传到全身。 但我却不能停止演奏，双手好像着了魔似的。我不停地想，我的手指会调整好，就像火车会被扳倒正确的轨道上。
7. 她的脸部失去了表情，嘴巴紧闭，双臂无力地垂下。她退出了房间，神色惊异，好像一小片枯黄的树叶被风吹走了，那样的单薄、脆弱、毫无生气。
8. 我第一次， 或好像感觉是第一次，注意到右边的乐曲。它的名称是“心满意足”。我也试着弹这首曲子。它的曲调比较轻松，但节奏同样流畅，不是很难。“祈求的孩子”较短、较慢， 而“心满意足”更长、更快一些。 在我弹了几遍后，我意识到，原来这两个曲子是同一首歌的两个组成部分。 Lesson 3
1. Yet globalization… “is a reality, not a choice”.
Yet globalization is not something that you can accept or reject, it is already
a matter of life which you will encounter and have to respond to every day. 2. Popular factions sprout to exploit nationalist anxieties.
Political groups with broad support have come into being to take advantage of existing worries and uneasiness among the people about foreign “cultural