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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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Coveive Live Lose Mind Pattern Plan Sight
Perhaps to lose a sense of where you are implies the danger of losing a sense of who you are.
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Meaning grows in the mind, but the shape and form of the act remains.
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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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America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description.
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America Fate Loyal Recognise Share Strand Woven
If social protest is antithetical to art, what then shall we make of Goya, Dickens, and Twain?
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Art Justice Love Miracle Protest Social
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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Being Yourself Ego Expectation Life Love Respect Self Self Esteem
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 suspect that all the agony that goes into writing is borne precisely because the writer longs for acceptance-but it must be acceptance on his own terms.
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The clock ticked with empty urgency, as though trying to catch up with the time. In the street a siren howled.
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Injustice wears ever the same harsh face wherever it shows itself.
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I blundered into writing.
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The antidote to hubris, to overweening pride, is irony, that capacity to discover and systematize ideas.
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And I knew that it was better to live out one’s absurdity than to die for that of others.
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Without the possibility of action, all knowledge comes to one labeled ‘file and forget.’
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Action Brain Forget Knowledge Possibility Power
I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
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Black History People Refuse Understand Visible

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