Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
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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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
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If you cannot love me, I will die. Before you came I wanted to die, I have told you many times. It is cruel to have made me want to live only to make my death more bloody
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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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No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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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 very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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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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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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You write in order to change the world, if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.
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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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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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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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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.
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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 role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.
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True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one’s life.
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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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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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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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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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