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“James Baldwin’s words haunt: “People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster.” Are we a nation of monsters?”
― Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul
― Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul
“Where there is a woman there is magic.”
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“Connubial
Because with alarming accuracy
she’d been identifying patterns
I was unaware of—this tic, that
tendency, like the way I've mastered
the language of intimacy
in order to conceal how I felt—
I knew I was in danger
of being terribly understood.”
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Because with alarming accuracy
she’d been identifying patterns
I was unaware of—this tic, that
tendency, like the way I've mastered
the language of intimacy
in order to conceal how I felt—
I knew I was in danger
of being terribly understood.”
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“The helpful thought for which you look
Is written somewhere in a book.”
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Is written somewhere in a book.”
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“... "You may not see the ocean, but right now we are in the middle of the ocean, and we have to keep swimming.”
― Strength in What Remains: A Journey of Remembrance and Forgiveness
― Strength in What Remains: A Journey of Remembrance and Forgiveness
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