If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
JAMES BALDWINThe world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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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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You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason.
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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.
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The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
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The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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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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There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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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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