The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.
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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You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
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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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You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don’t live the only life you have, you won’t live some other life, you won’t live any life at all.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way a person looks at reality, then you can change it.
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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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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it.
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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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