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"What difference do it make if the thing you scared of is real or not?"
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"I'm not afraid to die. What I'm afraid of is having reality get the better of me, of having reality leave me behind."
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"Fear is a disease of mind we inherit from society."
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"Fear deprives us the fullness of existence."
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"Some mysteries bite and barkand come to get you in the dark."
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"A monster's worst fear is of being found."
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"Fear is a part of life. It's a warning mechanism. That's all. It tells you when there's danger around. Its job is to help you survive. Not cripple you into being unable to do it."
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"Until you break through the walls of fear, you will not be able to reach the door of opportunity."
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"So many horrid Ghosts."
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"There are things so horrible that even the dark is afraid of them. Most people don't know this and this is just as well because the world could not really operate if everyone stayed in bed with the blankets over their head, which is what would happen if people knew what horrors lay a shadow's width away."
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"It's not the circumstances that we should feel threatened by, it's the fear of the circumstances that poses the real threat."
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"Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war."
Society

"There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how."
Wisdom

"I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man."
Relationship

"I'm always annoyed about why black people have to bear the brunt of everybody else's contempt. If we are not totally understanding and smiling, suddenly we're demons."
Equality

"For a long time I was convinced that the conflict between Jewish people and black people in this country was a media event."
Politics

"Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it."
Writing

"Certain seeds it will not nurture, certain fruit it will not bear and when the land kills of its own volition, we acquiesce and say the victim had no right to live."
Nature

"She knew Paul D was adding something to her life-something she wanted to count on but was scared to... His waiting eyes and awful human power. The mind of him that knew her own. Her story was bearable because it was his as well-to tell, to refine and tell again. The things neither knew about the other-the things neither had word-shapes for-well, it would come in time."
Relationship

"Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are."
Justice

"Somebody has to take responsibility for being a leader."
Leadership
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