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"In becoming an American, from Europe, what one has in common with that other immigrant is contempt for me-it's nothing else but color."
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"Learn to experience yourself without judging yourself."
"Be yourself, that is all there is."
"All day long, no one is at fault for anything. Whatever faults we see; we see them because of our own defects."
"When we learn of Him, we see the things that we do wrong, we see what things need to be corrected in our way of thinking and our way of living."
"Your inner world creates your outer world."
"We, ignorant of ourselves,Beg often our own harms, which the wise powersDeny us for our good; so find we profitBy losing of our prayers."
"The reason for our limitation is only inside us."
"I have been an author for 20 years and an ass for 55."
"It is when you lose sight of yourself, that you lose your way. To keep your truth in sight you must keep yourself in sight and the world to you should be a mirror to reflect to you your image; the world should be a mirror that you reflect upon."
"To persevere is one thing, but to push on ignoring your intuition is something quite different. Self-awareness is the practice of learning the difference."
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"Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war."
"There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how."
"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."
"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."
"For a long time I was convinced that the conflict between Jewish people and black people in this country was a media event."
"Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it."
"I would solve a lot of literary problems just thinking about a character in the subway, where you can't do anything anyway."
"A lot of black people believe that Jews in this country have become white. They behave like white people rather than Jewish people."
"I merged those two words, black and feminist, because I was surrounded by black women who were very tough and and who always assumed they had to work and rear children and manage homes."
"For me, Art is the restoration of order. It may discuss all sort of terrible things, but there must be satisfaction at the end. A little bit of hunger, but also satisfaction."
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