Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
JAMES BALDWINYou write in order to change the world, if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.
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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have.
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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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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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History is not a procession of illustrious people. It’s about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about.
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You write in order to change the world, if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.
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You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason.
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Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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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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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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