Please 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.
JAMES BALDWINPeople can cry much easier than they can change.
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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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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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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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People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception.
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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.
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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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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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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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