Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
JAMES BALDWINThe moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
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People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
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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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If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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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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Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
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Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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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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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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