There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
JAMES BALDWINThe price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
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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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People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception.
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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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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 most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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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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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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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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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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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.
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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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