People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
JAMES BALDWINAmerican history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
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Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it.
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It is easy to proclaim all souls equal in the sight of God; it is hard to make men equal on earth in the sight of men.
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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 role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.
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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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Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.
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Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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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 impossible is the least that one can demand.
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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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