Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
JAMES BALDWINThe world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread.
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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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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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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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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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The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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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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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason.
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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