Perhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.
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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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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I 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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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.
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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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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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Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it.
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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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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People can’t, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents.
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Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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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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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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