Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
JAMES BALDWINI often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.
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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 nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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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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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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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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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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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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If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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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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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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