Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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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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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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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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Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.
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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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Those kids aren’t dumb. But the people who run these schools want to make sure they don’t get smart: they are really teaching the kids to be slaves.
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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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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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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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