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“To have dominion over oneself, to be the sovereign of the nation of the self, one must be the writer of the story.”
― The House of Being
― The House of Being
“History, as nearly no one seems to know, is not merely something to be read. And it does not refer merely, or even principally, to the past. On the contrary, the great force of history comes from the fact that we carry it within us, are unconsciously controlled by it in many ways, and history is literally present in all that we do. —JAMES BALDWIN”
― The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels
― The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels
“The act of writing is a way to create another world in language, a dwelling place for the psyche wherein the chaos of the external world is transformed, shaped into a made thing, and ordered. It is an act of reclamation. And resistance: the soul sings for justice and the song is poetry.”
― The House of Being
― The House of Being
“This world is a great busy thoroughfare,
To succeed you must elbow your way,
If you wait for success to come to you,
You'll wait there and die in dismay.”
― Poetic Pearls
To succeed you must elbow your way,
If you wait for success to come to you,
You'll wait there and die in dismay.”
― Poetic Pearls
“Joyce is right about history being a nightmare—but it may be the nightmare from which no one can awaken. People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.”
― Notes of a Native Son
― Notes of a Native Son
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