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“Most Protestants believe that once a person is saved, it’s impossible for her to lose her eternal security ... most of the kids I grew up with were saved before they’d lost their baby teeth.”

“Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the later.”

Charlotte Brontë, may your soul revisit us in these times

On the erosion of the freshwater dunes where the author’s summer cottage is built:

Everyone plants more dune grass and prays for a few more years. I once pointed out to my mother that there is, in fact, a biblical parable about the foolish man who built his house on sand, but she chided me for my pedantic liberalism. “That parable,” she said, “is about having a foundational faith.”

“This atrophy of his emotions left his mind quite clear; he was keener than ever to make his mark in society.”

“Ten minutes later he was pushing open the door of the art gallery.”

“And if I can die having brought any light, having exposed any meaningful truth that will help to destroy the race is cancer that is malignant in the body of America—then, all of the credit is due to Allah. Only the mistakes have been mine.”

Aside from the basic African dialects, I will try to learn Chinese, because it looks as if Chinese will be the most powerful political language of the future.

I told him, “ what you’re telling me is that it isn’t the American white man who is a racist, but it’s the American political, economic, and social atmosphere that automatically nourishes a racist psychology in the white man.” He agreed.

“[Dr. Schawarbi] said, ‘No man has believed perfectly until he wishes for his brother what he wishes for himself.”

"Is it accidental that as Red Chinese visit African and Asian countries, Russia and America draw steadily closer to each other?"

"How can the white American government figure on selling 'democracy' and 'brotherhood' to non-white peoples—if they read and hear every day what's going on right here in America, and see the better-than-a-thousand-words photographs of the American white man denying 'democracy' and 'brotherhood' to even America's native-born non-whites?"

"You see, Islam is the only religion that gives both husband and wife a true understanding of what love is. The Western 'love' concept, you take it apart, it really is lust. But love transcends just the physical. Love is disposition, behavior, attitude, thoughts, likes, dislikes—these things make a beautiful woman, a beautiful wife. This is the beauty that never fades."

"I had learned early one important thing, and that was to always teach in terms that the people could understand."

"I had come to prison with 20/20 vision. But when I got back to Charlestown, I had read so much by the lights-out glow in my room at the Norfolk Prison Colony that I had astigmatism and the first pair of the eyeglasses that I have worn ever since."

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