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James Joyce is right about history being a nightmare-- but it may

James Joyce is right about history being a nightmare– but it may be that nightmare from which no one can awaken. People are trapped in history and history in trapped in them. – James Baldwin

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No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable. – James Baldwin

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Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man. – Jean Genet

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History is a peoples memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals. – Malcom X

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History… is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake. – James Joyce, Ulysses

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