People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
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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The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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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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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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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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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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People don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
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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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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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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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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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