I don't want to be compared to anyone. I want to be the first version of myself, not the next version of someone else.

当我们是大为谦卑的时候，便是我们最接近伟大的时候。

And America, too, is a delusion, the grandest one of all. The white race believes—believes with all its heart—that it is their right to take the land. To kill Indians. Make war. Enslave their brothers. This nation shouldn’t exist, if there is any justice in the world, for its foundations are murder, theft, and cruelty.

El escritor debe ser un testigo de su tiempo, pero también un creador de mundos.

To understand is to perceive patterns.

The individual can understand his own experience and gauge his own fate only by locating himself within his period, that he can know his own chances in life only by becoming aware of those of all individuals in his circumstances.