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" Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable. "
James A. Baldwin
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" I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative. "
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" Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks. "
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" If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons. "
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" You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself. "
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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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" The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose. "
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" Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did. "
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" The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever. "
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" I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually. "
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" The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment. "
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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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" Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch. "
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" The writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at the same time, he needs no one at all. "
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" The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory. "
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" Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned. "
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" Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent. "
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" Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time. "
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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 are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention. "
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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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" The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide. "
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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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" Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it. "
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