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.
JAMES BALDWINOur crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear 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 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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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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The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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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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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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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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