Love was a country he knew nothing about.
JAMES BALDWINAny real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.
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Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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If a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe.
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It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
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People can’t, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents.
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It is easy to proclaim all souls equal in the sight of God; it is hard to make men equal on earth in the sight of men.
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Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
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If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way a person looks at reality, then you can change it.
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No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
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