The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.
JAMES BALDWINHatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
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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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The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
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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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True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one’s life.
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For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
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The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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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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You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
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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, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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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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