Whereas Jesus and his disciples were distrusted by the state largely because they respected the poor and shared everything, the fundamentalists of the present hour would appear not to know that the po...
You can not describe anything without betraying your point of view, your aspirations, your fears, your hopes. Everything.
Much has been written of love turning to hatred, of the heart growing cold with the death of love. It is a remarkable process. It is far more terrible than anything I have ever read about it, more ter...
The Americans have no sense of doom, none whatever. They do not recognize doom when they see it.
People, I have learned, have a way of taking root in one's still-developing mind without our knowing it, especially people, like [James] Baldwin, who live in the world of words.
No curtain under heaven is heavier than that curtain of guilt and lies behind which white Americans hide.
I stared at absurd Paris, which was as cluttered now, under the scalding sun, as the landscape of my heart.
I feel in myself now a faint, a dreadful stirring of what so overwhelmingly stirred in me then, great thirsty heat, and trembling, and tenderness so painful I thought my heart would burst. But out of...
He had been bruised, so to speak, so badly that the eyes of strangers lacerated him like salt.
But I felt that it was my heart which was broken. Something had broken in me to make me so cold and so perfectly still and far away.
And with every step I took it became more impossible for me to turn back. And my mind was empty—or it was as though my mind had become one enormous, anaesthetized wound. I thought only,
Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but, most of all, endurance.
If you know from whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations on where you can go.
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