To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread.
From James A. Baldwin
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.
Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.
I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.
You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself.
When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.
Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black.
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