There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people. - James Baldwin

Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.

I don't know, now, when I first looked at Hella and found her stale, found her body uninteresting, her presence grating. It seemed to happen all at once — I suppose that only means that it had been happening for a long time.

We do not trust educated people and rarely, alas, produce them, for we do not trust the independence of mind which alone makes a genuine education possible.