Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
JAMES BALDWINI am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also so much more than that. So are we all.
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Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have.
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The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way a person looks at reality, then you can change it.
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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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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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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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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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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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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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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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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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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don’t live the only life you have, you won’t live some other life, you won’t live any life at all.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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