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.
JAMES BALDWINIt’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.
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No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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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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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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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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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
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It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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