“At times we are the worst racist enemies of our black selves.”
“We always see the worst in our selves. Our most volnerable selves. We need someone to get close enough to tell us that we're wrong. Someone we trust.”
“We always see our worst selves. Our most vulnerable selves. We need someone else to get close enough to tell us we’re wrong. Someone we trust.”
“Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in the world.”
“It's when we face for a moment the worst our kind can do, and shudder to know the taint in our own selves, that awe cracks the mind's shell and enters the heart.”
“We have to learn to be our own best friends because we fall too easily into the trap of being our own worst enemies.”