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The antidote to hubris, to overweening pride, is irony, that capacity to discover and systematize ideas.

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I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
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It is sometimes advantageous to be unseen, although it is most often rather wearing on the nerves.
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It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: That I am nobody but myself.
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When American life is most American it is apt to be most theatrical.
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I denounce because though implicated and partially responsible, I have been hurt to the point of abysmal pain, hurt to the point of invisibility. And I defend because in spite of it all, I find that I love.
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Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear.
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I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.
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I was never more hated than when I tried to be honest. Or when, even as just now I’ve tried to articulate exactly what I felt to be the truth. No one was satisfied
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Power, for the writer….lies in his ability to reveal if only a little bit more about the complexity of humanity.
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Words are your business, boy. Not just the word. Words are everything. The key to the rock, the answer to the question.
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I remember that I’m invisible and walk softly so as not awake the sleeping ones. Sometimes it is best not to awaken them; there are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.
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If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to bind, imprison and destroy.
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…and yet I am what they think I am.
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I blundered into writing.
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Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.
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Injustice wears ever the same harsh face wherever it shows itself.
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