There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
JAMES BALDWINHistory is not a procession of illustrious people. It’s about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about.
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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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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have.
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also so much more than that. So are we all.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
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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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History is not a procession of illustrious people. It’s about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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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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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one’s life.
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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 price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
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