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Son, how easily an open heart can be poisoned, how quickly love becomes the seeds of rage. Life wrecks the living.
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
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“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”
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“Your silence will not protect you.”
― Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
― Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
“Violence is a personal necessity for the oppressed...It is not a strategy consciously devised. It is the deep, instinctive expression of a human being denied individuality.”
― Native Son
― Native Son
“I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass. When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves or figments of their imagination, indeed, everything and anything except me.”
― Invisible Man
― Invisible Man
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