It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
JAMES BALDWIN
I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
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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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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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It is easy to proclaim all souls equal in the sight of God; it is hard to make men equal on earth in the sight of men.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason.
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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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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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 is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
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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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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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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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