At four o’clock in the morning, when everyone is drunk enough, then extraordinary things can happen.
JAMES A. BALDWINIt is a terrible, an inexorable, law that one cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one’s own: in the face of one’s victim, one sees oneself.
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It is a terrible, an inexorable, law that one cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one’s own: in the face of one’s victim, one sees oneself.
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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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I think Americans are terrified of feeling anything. I never met a people more infantile in my life.
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If you think too far ahead, if you even try to think too far ahead, you’ll never make it.
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You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don’t live the only life you have, you won’t live some other life, you won’t live any life at all.
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You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. [and then you discover that others have suffered much more than you and your problems look good in comparison]
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Hatred destroys the person who hates.
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I must oppose any attempt that Negroes may make to do to others what has been done to them. . . . I know the spiritual wasteland to which that road leads . . . whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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A devotion to humanity is… too easily equated with a devotion to a Cause, and Causes, as we know, are notoriously bloodthirsty.
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You write in order to change the world.
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To accept one’s past – one’s history – is not the same thing as drowning in it; it is learning how to use it. An invented past can never be used; it cracks and crumbles under the pressures of life like clay in a season of drought.
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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The reason people think it’s important to be white is that they think it’s important not to be black.
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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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The writer’s only real task: to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art
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