Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
JAMES BALDWINNobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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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 are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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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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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.
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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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The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
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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.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.
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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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If a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe.
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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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