Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
JAMES BALDWINThe world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way a person looks at reality, then you can change it.
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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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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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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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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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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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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Perhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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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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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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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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History is not a procession of illustrious people. It’s about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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