Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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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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It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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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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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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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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American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
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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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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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