Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
JAMES BALDWINLove does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
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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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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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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.
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
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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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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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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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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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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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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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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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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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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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