Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.
JAMES BALDWINPerhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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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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Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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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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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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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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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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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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The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way a person looks at reality, then you can change it.
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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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Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
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The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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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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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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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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