It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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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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 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 price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
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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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Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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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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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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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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People don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
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True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one’s life.
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To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread.
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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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