It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
JAMES BALDWIN
Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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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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People don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
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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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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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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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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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Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.
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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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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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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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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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