Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
JAMES BALDWINThere are people in the world for whom “coming along” is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.
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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 was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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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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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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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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People don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.
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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason.
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It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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There are people in the world for whom “coming along” is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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