The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
JAMES BALDWINMost of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one’s life.
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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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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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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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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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You 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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American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
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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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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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If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.
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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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