Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.
JAMES BALDWINIt 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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Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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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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Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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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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The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
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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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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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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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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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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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