I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also so much more than that. So are we all.
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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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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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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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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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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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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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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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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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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Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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