Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
JAMES BALDWINPlease 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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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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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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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.
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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 think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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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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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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Those kids aren’t dumb. But the people who run these schools want to make sure they don’t get smart: they are really teaching the kids to be slaves.
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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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