Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
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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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American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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If you cannot love me, I will die. Before you came I wanted to die, I have told you many times. It is cruel to have made me want to live only to make my death more bloody
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If a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe.
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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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For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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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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Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.
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