Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born and go through our changes in a s

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Author: James Arthur Baldwin

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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart, for his purity by definition is unassailable.

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.

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense once hate is gone they will be forced to deal with pain.

American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.

Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.

People are people and sometimes we change our minds.

Sometimes life is so unkind, but change is never a waste of time

Open your arms to change, but don’t let go of your values.