You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
JAMES BALDWIN
There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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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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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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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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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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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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It is easy to proclaim all souls equal in the sight of God; it is hard to make men equal on earth in the sight of men.
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The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
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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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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.
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To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
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