Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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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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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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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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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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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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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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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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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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