You write in order to change the world, if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.
JAMES BALDWINLove brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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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 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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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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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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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.
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No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
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The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
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I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also so much more than that. So are we all.
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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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