Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
JAMES BALDWINThe world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way a person looks at reality, then you can change it.
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American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.
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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
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There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.
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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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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason.
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No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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