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Very often we support change, and then are swept away by the change. I think that…you just make your own response to your own generation. A response adequate to your time.

Nadine Gordimer

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It’s easier for the former masters to put aside the masks that hid their humanity than for the former slaves to recognise the faces underneath. Or to trust that this is not a new mask these are wearing.
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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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