People can cry much easier than they can change.
JAMES BALDWINLove brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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People don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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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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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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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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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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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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If 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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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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