You're very insistent, but I'm very busy. - Ralph Ellison

But live you must, and you can either make passive love to your sickness or burn it out and go on to the next conflicting phase.

Everywhere I've turned somebody has wanted to sacrifice me for my own good — only /they/ were the ones who benefited. And now we start on the old sacrificial merry-go-round. At what point do we stop?

If you can show me how I can cling to that which is real to me, while teaching me a way into the larger society, then I will not only drop my defenses and my hostility, but I will sing your praises and help you to make the desert bear fruit.