The Lying Days

Quotes

• “I have learned since that sometimes the things we want most are impossible for us. You may long to come home, yet wander forever.”

• “Though the leaves are many, the root is one;Through all the lying days of my youth; I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun Now I may wither into the truth.”

• “I am not practicing any self-deception any longer. Moreover, I am not running away. Whatever it was I was running away from-the risk of love? The guilt of being White? The danger of putting ideas into practice? I am not running away from now because I am coming back here.”