The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
JAMES BALDWINNo one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
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The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
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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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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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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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The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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If you cannot love me, I will die. Before you came I wanted to die, I have told you many times. It is cruel to have made me want to live only to make my death more bloody
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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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