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- Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a…
- Then I buckled up my shoes, and I started.
- When the white man came to Africa, the white man had the Bible and the African had the land, but now it is the white…
- One day, to everyone’s astonishment, someone drops a match in the powder keg and everything blows up.
- People can cry much easier than they can change, a rule of psychology people like me picked up as kids on the street.
- All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the…
- These boys, now, were living as we'd been living then, they were growing up with a rush and their heads bumped abruptly against the low…
- People who cling to their illusions find it difficult, if not impossible, to learn anything worth learning: a people under the necessity of creating themselves…
- I'm not interested in anybody's guilt. Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford. I know you didn't do it, and I didn't…
- He leaned up a little and watched her face. Her face would now be, forever, more mysterious and impenetrable than the face of any stranger.…
- It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I’d been taught about myself, and half-believed, before I was able to walk on the…
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