The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
JAMES BALDWINHatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.
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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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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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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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Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
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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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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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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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People can’t, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents.
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If a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe.
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