If a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe.
JAMES BALDWINLove brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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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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Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
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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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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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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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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make 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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The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.
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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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Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.
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