"I gave you a rare gift, and you didn't want it. You would deny me my life." "Not your life." "My freedom then, you would take that from me. Confine me to a prison cell. Did you believe you could change me the way I've changed you?" "I already did."
"I'm not crazy. I'm not. Of course what else would a crazy person claim? That's the Kafkaesque genius of it all. If you're not crazy but people have told the world you are, then all your protests to the contrary just underscore their point. Do you see what I'm saying?"
"Chemistry is the study of matter, but I prefer to see it as the study of change. Now, just think about this. Electrons, they change their energy levels. Molecules change their bonds. Elements, they combine and change into compounds.
"Well, that's... That's all of life, right? It's the constant, it's the cycle... It's solution, dissolution, just over and over and over. It's growth, then decay, then transformation.
"There was a moment, when I used to blame everything and everyone for all the pain and suffering and vile things that happened to me, that I saw happen to my people. Used to blame everybody. Blamed white people, blamed society, blamed God. I didn't get no answers 'cause I was asking the wrong questions. You have to ask the right questions." "Like what?" "Has anything you've done made your life better?"
"Jack Crawford heard the rhythm and syntax of his own speech in Graham’s voice. He had heard Graham do that before, with other people. Often in intense conversation Graham took on the other’s person’s speech patterns. (…) Graham did it involuntary. What [Graham] saw and learned touched everything else he knew. (…) His associations came at the speed of light."
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