Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
JAMES BALDWINGenerations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have.
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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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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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Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
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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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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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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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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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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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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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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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