Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
JAMES BALDWINFreedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
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Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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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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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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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.
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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 people in the world for whom “coming along” is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.
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People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
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Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity.
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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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