You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
JAMES BALDWINPeople are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have.
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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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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.
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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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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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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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