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.
JAMES BALDWINNot everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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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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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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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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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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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
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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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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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