Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
JAMES BALDWINIt 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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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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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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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 impossible is the least that one can demand.
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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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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.
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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.
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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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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it.
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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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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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