Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.
JAMES BALDWINNobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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People don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
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I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also so much more than that. So are we all.
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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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Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.
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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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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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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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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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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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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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