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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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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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People 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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People can’t, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents.
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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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If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity.
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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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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
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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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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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Perhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.
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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.
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