There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
JAMES BALDWINNakedness 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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No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
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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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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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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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If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
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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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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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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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I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
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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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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.
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