It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow.
Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it.
Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.
Education is all a matter of building bridges.
I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass. When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves or figments of their imagination, indeed, everything and anything except me.
When I discover who I am, I'll be free.
If you can show me how I can cling to that which is real to me, while teaching me a way into the larger society, then and only then will I drop my defenses and hostility, and I will sing your praises and help you to make the desert bear fruit.
The world is a possibility if only you'll discover it.
At best Americans give but a limited attention to history. Too much happens too rapidly, and before we can evaluate it, or exhaust its meaning or pleasure, there is something new to concern us. Ours is the tempo of the motion picture, not that of the still camera, and we waste experience as we wasted the forest.
I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer.
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.
Without the possibility of action, all knowledge comes to one labeled 'file and forget.'
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.
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?
I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.
There are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.
I am nobody but myself.
I was pulled this way and that for longer than I can remember. And my problem was that I always tried to go in everyone's way but my own. I have also been called one thing and then another while no one really wished to hear what I called myself. So after years of trying to adopt the opinions of others I finally rebelled. I am an invisible man.
Injustice wears ever the same harsh face wherever it shows itself.
Power, for the writer....lies in his ability to reveal if only a little bit more about the complexity of humanity.
In order to travel far you have to be detached.
Without involvement, there is no commitment. Mark it down, asterisk it, circle it, underline it." Stephen Covey "It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow.
That ... is how the world moves: Not like an arrow, but a boomerang.
So why do I write, torturing myself to put it down? Because in spite of myself I've learned some things. Without the possibility of action, all knowledge comes to one labeled "file and forget," and I can neither file nor forget. Nor will certain ideas forget me; they keep filing away at my lethargy, my complacency. Why should I be the one to dream this nightmare?
Light confirms my reality, gives birth to my form...without light I am not only invisible but formless as well; and to be unaware of one's form is to live a death...the truth is the light and light is the truth.
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