Quotes About Clarity

No matter how hard we try to ignore it, the mind always knows truth and wants clarity.

When I write, I don't translate for white readers.... Dostoevski wrote for a Russian audience, but we're able to read him. If I'm specific, and I don't overexplain, then anyone can overhear me.

She was fierce in the presence of death, heroic even, as she was at no other time. Its threat gave her direction, clarity, audacity.

Wait, wait, wait, wait. Don't try to write through it, to force it. Many do but that won't work. Just wait, it will come.

We can be clear. We can identify the enemy. We can begin by asking ourselves what it is right rather than what is expedient. Know the difference between fever and the disease. Between racism and greed. We can be clear and we can be careful. Careful to avoid the imprisonment of the mind, the spirit, and the will of ourselves and those among whom we live. We can be careful of tolerating second-rate goals and secondhand ideas.

She floated near but outside her own body, feeling vague and intense at the same time. Needing nothing. Being what there was.

Good is knowing when to stop.

I think long and carefully about what novels ought to do. They should clarify the roles that have become obscured; they ought to identify those things in the past that are useful and those things that are not; and they ought to give nourishment.

The kind of clarity crazy people demand from the not-crazy.

I can't tell you why I was in love with her. People didn't require that much as they do now. Folks were expected to be civilized to one another, honest, and - and clear. You relied on people being what they said they were, because there was no other way to survive.

they have the eyes of people who can tell what time it is by the colour of the sky... their eyes do not bite

Not knowing it was hard; knowing it was harder.

Narrative fiction provides a controlled wilderness, an opportunity to be and to become the Other. The stranger. With sympathy, clarity, and the risk of self-examination.

I ain't. Keeps him dumb. He wouldn't know a good woman from a snake and he won't let nobody point out the difference.

The light, therefore, was always misleading.

She looked around for a place to be. A small place. The closet? No. Too dark. The bathroom. It was both small and bright, an she wanted to be in a very small, very bright place. Small enough to contain her grief. Bright enough to throw into relief the dark things that cluttered her.

clarity about who one is and what one's work is, is inextricably bound up with one's place in a tribe—or a family, or a nation, or a race, or a sex, or what have you. And the clarity is necessary for the evaluation of the self and it is necessary for any productive intercourse with any other tribe or culture.

Shandrack estaba loco, pero eso no significaba que sus palabras no tuvieran sentido o, cosa aún más importante, que no tuvieran poder.

truth is trouble.

Oh, sure. You have to know what's wrong before you can find what's right.

Zkrátka a dobÃ…â"¢e – lidem, kteÃ…â"¢í mluví o vÅ¡em, hrozí ztráta schopnosti mluvit o n??em.

Focus equals feeling.

Sometimes I have the most amazing moments of clarity. Razor sharp, crystal clear. It's at these times I can see how fucking stupid I am.

in the cartoon of Sight. It