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Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they’re better than other human beings.
American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.
The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did – which was to hide.
The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one’s key to the experience of others.
Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
People can cry much easier than they can change.