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**America the Fearing** **Fear**  Fear of seeing a police car pull into the drive. Fear of falling asleep at night. Fear of not falling asleep. Fear of the past rising up. Fear of the present taking flight. Fear of the telephone that rings in the dead of night. Fear of electrical storms. Fear of the cleaning woman who has a spot on her cheek! Fear of dogs I've been told won't bite. Fear of anxiety! Fear of having to identify the body of a dead friend. Fear of running out of money. Fear of having too much, though people will not believe this. Fear of psychological profiles. Fear of being late and fear of arriving before anyone else. Fear of my children's handwriting on envelopes. Fear they'll die before I do, and I'll feel guilty. Fear of having to live with my mother in her old age, and mine. Fear of confusion. Fear this day will end on an unhappy note. Fear of waking up to find you gone. Fear of not loving and fear of not loving enough. Fear that what I love will prove lethal to those I love. Fear of death. Fear of living too long. Fear of death.

I've said that. //-Raymond Carver//

 " Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? " -Abraham Lincoln  “ The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time. ” - Mark Twain

“ Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us. ” -Marianne Williamson “ The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but deliverance from fear .” -Ralph Waldo Emerson



"And all the time we knew that Maureen Peal was not the Enemy and not worthy of such intense hatred. The //Thing// to fear was the //Thing// that made //her// beautiful, and not us." -Toni Morrison, //The Bluest Eye (p.74)//

"Suddenly he realized that Aunt Jimmy was dead, for he missed the fear of being whipped. There was nobody to do it except Uncle O.V., and he was the bereaved too." -Toni Morrison, //The Bluest Eye (p.146)// **
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"The walkway was flagged in calculated disorder, hiding the cunning symmetry. Only fear of discovery and the knowledge that we did not belong kept us from loitering. We circled the proud house and went to the back." -Toni Morrison, //The Bluest Eye (p.106)//

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