People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
JAMES BALDWINPeople don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
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Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.
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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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Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.
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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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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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People can’t, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents.
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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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If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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You write in order to change the world, if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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