It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
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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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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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.
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Perhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.
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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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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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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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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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There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
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Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
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