“I sense a deep despair inside this boy that must be hard to live with.”

“Somehow great leaders reach deep down in their souls and find the power within them to overcome despair. We must too...if we want to accomplish great things in our lives!”

“Stuart must have sensed my despair from the way I began lightly banging my forehead on the table.”

“The overall impact of postmodernism is that many other groups now share with black folks a sense of deep alienation, despair, uncertainty, loss of sense of grounding even if it is not informed by shared circumstance.”

“It must be a hard thing, to be a father; living in fear that your daughter would meet a boy she liked, but also having to worry if she didn't.”

“Something settiled inside me, something heavy and hard. It stayed there, and i could not think of one thing to make it go away. I thought, So this must be living, this must be the beginning of the time people later refer to as 'years ago, when I was young'.”