The impossible is the least that one can demand.
JAMES BALDWINYou 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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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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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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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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The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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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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The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
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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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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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It is easy to proclaim all souls equal in the sight of God; it is hard to make men equal on earth in the sight of men.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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