Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity.
JAMES BALDWINEverybody’s journey is individual.
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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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People don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
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It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.
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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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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have.
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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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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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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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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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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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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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If you cannot love me, I will die. Before you came I wanted to die, I have told you many times. It is cruel to have made me want to live only to make my death more bloody
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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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Everyone 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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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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