Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
JAMES BALDWINConfusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.
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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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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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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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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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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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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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Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity.
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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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