The price one pays for pursuing a profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

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The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

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The reason people think it's important to be white is that they think it's important not to be black.

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An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.

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It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.

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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

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Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.

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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.

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Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war love is a growing up.

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No one can possibly know what is about to happen it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.

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