For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
JAMES BALDWINThe world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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If you cannot love me, I will die. Before you came I wanted to die, I have told you many times. It is cruel to have made me want to live only to make my death more bloody
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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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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 is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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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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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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There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
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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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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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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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