It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror. - James Baldwin

Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.

(You seem very troubled but not by death?) JB: Yes, true, but not at all by death. I'm troubled over getting my work done and over all the things I've not learned. It's useless to be troubled by death, because then, of course, you can't live at all. (1984)

I know that people can be better than they are. We are capable of bearing a great burden, once we discover that the burden is reality and arrive where reality is.