You write in order to change the world, if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.
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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The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
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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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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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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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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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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.
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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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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 price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
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The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.
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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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