All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
JAMES BALDWINEveryone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it.
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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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You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason.
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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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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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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one’s life.
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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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