Perhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.
JAMES BALDWINI imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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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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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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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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To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don’t live the only life you have, you won’t live some other life, you won’t live any life at all.
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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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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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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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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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I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also so much more than that. So are we all.
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