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 BALDWINIf 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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The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also so much more than that. So are we all.
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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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No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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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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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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