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I’m not a separatist. The imagination is integrative. That’s how you make the new — by putting something else with what you’ve got. And I’m unashamedly an American integrationist.

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What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?
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And the mind that has conceived a plan of living must never lose sight of the chaos against which that pattern was conceived. That goes for societies as well as for individuals.
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America is woven of many strands. I would recognize them and let it so remain.
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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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I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids – and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
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And while the ice was melting to form a flood in which I threatened to drown I awoke one afternoon to find that my first northern winter had set.
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The truth is the light and the light is the truth.
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And my problem was that I always tried to go in everyone’s way but my own.
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Having tried to give pattern to the chaos which lives within the pattern of your certainties, I must come out, I must emerge.
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