Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
JAMES BALDWINThe place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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It is easy to proclaim all souls equal in the sight of God; it is hard to make men equal on earth in the sight of men.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one’s life.
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The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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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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Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.
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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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