Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.
JAMES BALDWINKnow from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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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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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.
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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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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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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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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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It is easy to proclaim all souls equal in the sight of God; it is hard to make men equal on earth in the sight of men.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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