[T]here are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers. - Ralph Ellison

Perhaps the most insidious and least understood form of segregation is that of the word.[…] For if the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison and destroy.

It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: That I am nobody but myself.

For now I had begun to believe, despite all the talk of science around me, that there was a magic in spoken words.