Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
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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People can’t, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents.
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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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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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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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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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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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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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Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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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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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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