I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
JAMES BALDWIN
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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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’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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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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It is easy to proclaim all souls equal in the sight of God; it is hard to make men equal on earth in the sight of men.
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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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Perhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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Those kids aren’t dumb. But the people who run these schools want to make sure they don’t get smart: they are really teaching the kids to be slaves.
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Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.
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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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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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