We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
JAMES BALDWINNo man is a devil in his own mind.
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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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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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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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It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
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The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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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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Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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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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