Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear 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 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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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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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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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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People can’t, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents.
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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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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’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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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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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
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