Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
JAMES BALDWINChildren have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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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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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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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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I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
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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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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread.
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It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.
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Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
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