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"i am quite obsessed with this book, and i have learned so much in such a short span of time. not done yet, but wow. i love media that is educational, digestible, straight-forward, honest, inspiring, and eye-opening. it's not just all doom and gloom, which i think a lot of educational books can struggle to get things right. honing in on the education of death and destruction, with minimal to no aftercare or solutions." — Feb 18, 2024 12:51AM
"i am quite obsessed with this book, and i have learned so much in such a short span of time. not done yet, but wow. i love media that is educational, digestible, straight-forward, honest, inspiring, and eye-opening. it's not just all doom and gloom, which i think a lot of educational books can struggle to get things right. honing in on the education of death and destruction, with minimal to no aftercare or solutions." — Feb 18, 2024 12:51AM
“It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I’d been taught about myself, and half-believed, before I was able to walk on the earth as though I had a right to be here.”
― Collected Essays: Notes of a Native Son / Nobody Knows My Name / The Fire Next Time / No Name in the Street / The Devil Finds Work / Other Essays
― Collected Essays: Notes of a Native Son / Nobody Knows My Name / The Fire Next Time / No Name in the Street / The Devil Finds Work / Other Essays
“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
“The subtle and deadly change of heart that might occur in you would be involved with the realization that a civilization is not destroyed by wicked people; it is not necessary that people be wicked but only that they be spineless.”
― The Fire Next Time
― The Fire Next Time
“If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.”
― The Fire Next Time
― The Fire Next Time
“The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.”
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