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“Heavenly witnesses are a tricky lot, to be used by whoever is closest to Heaven at the time. And legend and theology, which are designed to sanctify our fears, crimes, and aspirations, also reveal them for what they are.”
― The Fire Next Time
― The Fire Next Time
“Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.”
― The Fire Next Time
― The Fire Next Time
“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
“The impossible is the least that one can demand.”
― The Fire Next Time: Mcdougal Littell Literature Connections
― The Fire Next Time: Mcdougal Littell Literature Connections
“Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word "love" here not merely in the personal sense but as a state of being, or a state of grace - not in the infantile American sense of being made happy but in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth.”
― The Fire Next Time
― The Fire Next Time
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