Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.
JAMES BALDWINLove was a country he knew nothing about.
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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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The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
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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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For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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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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Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
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There are people in the world for whom “coming along” is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.
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American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about 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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It is easy to proclaim all souls equal in the sight of God; it is hard to make men equal on earth in the sight of men.
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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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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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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.
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