Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
JAMES BALDWINPeople who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception.
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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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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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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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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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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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