The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
JAMES BALDWINAny 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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Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.
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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 impossible is the least that one can demand.
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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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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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The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
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Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.
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If a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe.
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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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Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
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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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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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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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It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
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Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.
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