The impossible is the least that one can demand.
JAMES BALDWINLove 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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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also so much more than that. So are we all.
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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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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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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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Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason.
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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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