"be Not Afraid"

"be not afraid"

demanding

you have no right to control another person's feelings

does not provide a productive alternative

"when you hide behind that rock I feel as though you don't appreciate the fact that I came all this way to deliver the word of god"

statement of fact

not pushy

opens conversation to productive compromise

emotionally aware

that james baldwin quote where he says, “it took many years of vomiting up all the filth i’d been taught about myself, and half-believed, before i was able to walk on the earth as though i had a right to be here.”

August 17, 1924 Journals of Anais Nin 1923-1927 [volume 3]

“Doubt is uncomfortable, but certainty is ridiculous.”

— Voltaire, Oeuvres de Voltaire: Lettres

“Good writers have two things in common: they prefer to be understood rather than admired; and they do not write for knowing and over-acute readers.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche