People can’t, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents.
JAMES BALDWINPeople can’t, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents.
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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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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it.
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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.
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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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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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Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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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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The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
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