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"Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock."
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"Brokenness a result of bitterness."

"Your gaze fixated on him, my imagination deducing your conclusion. The agony sets in, this pain is unsurpassable with despair adjoining. But I can feel my heart knocking against my chest. So I'll attempt to push ahead for my behalf."

"Grief gives you a hundred reasons to cry; hope gives you a thousand reasons to smile, joy gives you a million reasons to laugh, and love gives you billion reasons to rejoice."

"Bitterness is a broken spirit."
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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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