People can cry much easier than they can change.
JAMES BALDWINIf I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don’t live the only life you have, you won’t live some other life, you won’t live any life at all.
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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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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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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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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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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 who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception.
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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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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread.
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Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
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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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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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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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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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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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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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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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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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