Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.
Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.
It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black.
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
Experience, which destroys innocence, also leads one back to it.
Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone... they will be forced to deal with pain.
The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other, and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
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