You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
JAMES BALDWINPeople pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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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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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread.
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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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It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.
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The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
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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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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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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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