James BaldwinThat summer, in any case, all the fears with which I had grown up, and which were now a part of me and controlled my vision of the world, rose up like a wall between the world and me, and drove me into the church.
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I was not able to see the beauty of the world around me because I always saw the world through my fears. When you live in fear, your vision of life is limited by that fear.
Source: The Fire Next Time
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