The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
JAMES BALDWINGuilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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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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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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True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one’s life.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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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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Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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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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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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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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Perhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.
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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
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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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No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
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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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