Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
JAMES BALDWINPrecisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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People can’t, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents.
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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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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The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
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Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.
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True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one’s life.
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The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way a person looks at reality, then you can change it.
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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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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.
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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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If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.
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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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Perhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.
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