People don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
JAMES BALDWINNobody 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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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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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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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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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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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.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity.
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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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If you cannot love me, I will die. Before you came I wanted to die, I have told you many times. It is cruel to have made me want to live only to make my death more bloody
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There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.
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