No man is a devil in his own mind.
JAMES BALDWINWe all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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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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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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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about 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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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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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 often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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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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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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