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Courage is continuing to perform your daily tasks, and being hopeful despite the odds, not inflicting your fears on others, and remaining sensitive to their needs and expectations, and also not supposing, because you're dying, nothing matters any more.

~ Leonard Michaels

Leonard Michaels Courage Living Life

Stories should be natural as apples, brief as lust, long as a thought.

~ Leonard Michaels

Leonard Michaels Apples Lust Natural Story Thought

May 20, '95 - Mississippi calls. She says, All my working life I have done things to help black people. I can drive into the black part of town where no white person would dare to go. I have nothing to fear. They say, 'Hi there, Mizz Mississippi.' I still call them niggers, but only because of the way they act. I'd have an affair with Johnnie Cochran in a minute. Once she said to me, I don't see why I should have to feel guilty about the Holocaust. It's not my fault. I hadn't been talking or thinking about the Holocaust, and hadn't told anyone to feel guilty. Her remark came out of nowhere. We were in a diner, about to have a sandwich and suddenly the moment was explosive. Simply being a Jew arouses a peculiar expectation mixed with resentment, even in a highly intelligent woman. Amazing to me is that she doesn't do much but watch television, drink beer, and smoke Marlboros, and yet seethes with dark thoughts and tumultuous feeling.

~ Leonard Michaels

Leonard Michaels Antisemitism Liberals Racism

Never to have to think of yourself as white is a luxory that makes you deeply stupid.

~ Leonard Michaels

Leonard Michaels Race

Feb. 1, 1965Storm late at night, heavy rain, a thunderous racket, the windows shaking. I heard my name called. A woman’s voice in hell pleading with me to join her.

~ Leonard Michaels

Leonard Michaels Ghosts Grief And Loss
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