There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
JAMES BALDWINEveryone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves 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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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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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.
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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 can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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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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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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Perhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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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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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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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 moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
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