Don’t let it make you bitter. Try to understand. Try to understand. The world’s already bitter enough, we got to try to be better than the world. - James Baldwin

Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.

Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.

I was in his hands, he called me by the thunder at my ear. I was in his hands: I was being changed; all that I could do was cling to him. I did not realize, until I realized it, that I was also kissing him, that everything was breaking and changing and turning in me and moving toward him.