If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
JAMES BALDWINPeople don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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Perhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.
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American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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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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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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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 power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.
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