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"Don't you see? You and he might never cross paths again. Of course, a chance meeting could occur, and I hope it happens. I really do, for your sake. But realistically speaking, you have to see there's a huge possibility you'll never be able to meet him again. And even if you do meet, he might already be married to somebody else. He might have two kids. Isn't that so? And in that case, you may have to live the rest of your life alone, never being joined with the one person you love in all the world. Don't you find that scary?"

"It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression."

"Poverty is a mathematical proof of the fact that mankind is a big failure!"

"There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose."
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"To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread."

"To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time."

"Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time."

"The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever."

"No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time."

"It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind."
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