Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
JAMES BALDWINIt is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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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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Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
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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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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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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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Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have.
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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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You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don’t live the only life you have, you won’t live some other life, you won’t live any life at all.
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