Love After
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“Yup! Approaching forty and trying to figure out life. I’m such a lame.” “Nah. You’re beautiful, and you’re doing what Auntie Maxine told you to do… reclaiming your time. Nothing wrong with that.”
“Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.”
― Unpopular Essays
― Unpopular Essays
“When you know you are of worth, you don’t have to raise your voice, you don’t have to become rude, you don’t have to become vulgar; you just are. And you are like the sky is, as the air is, the same way water is wet. It doesn’t have to protest.”
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“Seasons change. Though humans are creatures of habit, we can easily adapt if we allow our minds to be like water. The people who have lived there can live elsewhere and will be okay. It’s only when we hold onto the past that change becomes painful.”
― Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Side Chicks II
― Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Side Chicks II
“Animosity in fact loves, but in a different sense. Meaning it loves in the same way that, as it is often said, misery loves company. And just as love seeks unity, so does hatred crave uniformity.”
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“I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a "more convenient season.”
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