People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
JAMES BALDWINNot everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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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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You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
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People can’t, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents.
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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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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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History is not a procession of illustrious people. It’s about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about.
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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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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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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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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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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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.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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