You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
JAMES BALDWINThe moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
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There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.
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You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason.
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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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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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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have.
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If a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe.
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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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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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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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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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I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also so much more than that. So are we all.
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