People don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
JAMES BALDWINThose who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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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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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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Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
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To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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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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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 I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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People can’t, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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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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