Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
JAMES BALDWINThere are people in the world for whom “coming along” is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.
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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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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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Love 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 artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
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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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The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
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Those kids aren’t dumb. But the people who run these schools want to make sure they don’t get smart: they are really teaching the kids to be slaves.
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Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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