Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
JAMES BALDWINIt is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.
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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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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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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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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.
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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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You write in order to change the world, if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
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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 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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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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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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If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.
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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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History is not a procession of illustrious people. It’s about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about.
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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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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way a person looks at reality, then you can change it.
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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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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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Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.
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