Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity.
JAMES BALDWINWe all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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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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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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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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Most 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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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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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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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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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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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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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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If you cannot love me, I will die. Before you came I wanted to die, I have told you many times. It is cruel to have made me want to live only to make my death more bloody
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People don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
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