Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
JAMES BALDWINHatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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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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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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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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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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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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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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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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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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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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