Eventually, some black thinkers believe, this "separation" may be the shortest route to an authentic communication at some future date when blacks and whites can enter into encounters in which they truly speak as equals and in which the white man will no longer load every phrase with unconscious suggestions that he has something to "concede" to black men or that he wants to help black men "overcome" their blackness. John Howard Griffin
I fell in love with her when we were together, then fell deeper in love with her in the years we were apart.
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Nicholas Sparks
There ain't no way you can hold onto something that wants to go, you understand? You can only love what you got while you got it.
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Kate Dicamillo
There is love in holding and there is love in letting go.
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Elizabeth Berg
Dusk is just an illusion because the sun is either above the horizon or below it. And that means that day and night are linked in a way that few things are there cannot be one without the other yet they cannot exist at the...
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Nicholas Sparks
If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them.
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Michael Bassey Johnson
More Quotes By John Howard Griffin
He was one of those young men who possess an impressive store of facts, but no truths.
The author meets an African-American who observes that his fellows who begin with aspirations to a good education, solid career, and the raising of a family slowly lose that incentive. Even those who have a college education, he observes, need to take menial jobs and...
The author explains that some find recourse from injustice in literature and art but that these tend to deepen sensitivity to injustice rather than dull it.
Nothing can describe the withering horror of this. You feel lost, sick at heart before such unmasked hatred, not so much because it threatens you as because it shows humans in such an inhuman light. You see a kind of insanity, something so obscene the...
How can you render the duties of justice to men when you're afraid they'll be so unaware of justice they may destroy you? ...especially since their attitude toward their own race is a destructive one.
