Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.
JAMES BALDWINChildren have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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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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American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
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Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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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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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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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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It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.
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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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Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have.
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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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