Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
JAMES BALDWINPeople are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
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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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No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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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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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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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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Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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Perhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it.
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It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
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