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“Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity”
― The Fire Next Time: Mcdougal Littell Literature Connections
― The Fire Next Time: Mcdougal Littell Literature Connections
“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.”
― The Fire Next Time
― The Fire Next Time
“To defend oneself against a fear is simply to insure that one will, one day, be conquered by it; fears must be faced.”
― The Fire Next Time
― The Fire Next Time
“And if one despairs—as who has not?—of human love, God’s love alone is left. But God—and I felt this even then, so long ago, on that tremendous floor, unwillingly—is white. And if His love was so great, and if He loved all His children, why were we, the blacks, cast down so far?”
― The Fire Next Time
― The Fire Next Time
“To accept one’s past – one’s history – is not the same thing as drowning in it; it is learning how to use it. An invented past can never be used; it cracks and crumbles under the pressures of life like clay in a season of drought.”
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