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"Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war."

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

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"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."

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

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

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"A lot of black people believe that Jews in this country have become white. They behave like white people rather than Jewish people."

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"Hatred may keep a body warm, but it takes a lot to keep the fire stoked, so unless a person is extraordinary in some way, some people are not worth hating, just like they're not worth loving."

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"Milly Brush once might almost have fallen in love with these silences."

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"Oh, I don't wonder babies always cry when they wake up in the night. So often I want to do it too."

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"Don't you get it? You can't tell me what to feel."

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"Though I knew how this failure would hurt you, I had to fold like a grey moth and let go.You could not believe I was more than your echo."

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"Ilse was suffering so keenly that she wanted to arraign the universe at the bar of her pain."

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"Her future, she thought, was likely to be worse than her past, for after her years of contented renunciation, she had slipped back into desire and longing; she found joyless days of distasteful occupation harder and harder; she found the image of the intense and varied life she yearned for, and despaired of, becoming more and more importunate."

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"Sometimes it made her want to put her fist through glass; other times, it made her cry a river."

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"I suppose all this sounds very crazy - all these terrible emotions always do sound foolish when we put them into our inadequate words. They are not meant to be spoken - only felt and endured."

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"Pain was a torn piece of paper."

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