Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
JAMES BALDWINGenerations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have.
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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’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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You write in order to change the world, if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.
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The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.
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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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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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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.
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If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.
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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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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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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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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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To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
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