You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
JAMES BALDWINIf you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.
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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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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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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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You write in order to change the world, if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.
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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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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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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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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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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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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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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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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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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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