Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
JAMES BALDWINLife is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.
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American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
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The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.
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Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
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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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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.
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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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History is not a procession of illustrious people. It’s about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about.
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