You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
JAMES BALDWIN
Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.
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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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The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.
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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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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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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
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Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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