It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.
JAMES BALDWINThe 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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The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way a person looks at reality, then you can change it.
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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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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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People can’t, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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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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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.
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People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.
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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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Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.
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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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Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
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The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.
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