No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
JAMES BALDWINDo I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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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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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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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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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
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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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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one’s life.
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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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