The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
From James A. Baldwin
The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.
Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours.
It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
People can cry much easier than they can change.
If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.
No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.
Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.
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