Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
JAMES BALDWINLove was a country he knew nothing about.
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If a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe.
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Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason.
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You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don’t live the only life you have, you won’t live some other life, you won’t live any life at all.
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To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception.
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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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