Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear 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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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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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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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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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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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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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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Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
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If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.
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