People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
JAMES BALDWINWhen you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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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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The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
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It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.
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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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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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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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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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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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You write in order to change the world, if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.
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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
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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.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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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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