Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
JAMES BALDWINAnyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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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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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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To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread.
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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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There are people in the world for whom “coming along” is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.
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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.
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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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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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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