The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.
JAMES BALDWINLiterature is indispensable to the world.
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If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
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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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It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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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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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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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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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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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
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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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The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
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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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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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