You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
JAMES BALDWINThose who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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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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Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have.
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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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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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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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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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.
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