People can’t, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents.
JAMES BALDWINPeople 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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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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Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
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It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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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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Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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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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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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Those kids aren’t dumb. But the people who run these schools want to make sure they don’t get smart: they are really teaching the kids to be slaves.
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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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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception.
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