If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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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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It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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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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People can’t, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents.
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If a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe.
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It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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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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Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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