The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
JAMES BALDWINIf a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe.
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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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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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Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.
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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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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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Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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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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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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