It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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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The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
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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 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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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread.
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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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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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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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To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
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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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