Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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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History is not a procession of illustrious people. It’s about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about.
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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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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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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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There are people in the world for whom “coming along” is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.
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Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
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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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It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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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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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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People don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
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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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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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