People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception.
JAMES BALDWINThe artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
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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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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
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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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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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The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
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If a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe.
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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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 victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.
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You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don’t live the only life you have, you won’t live some other life, you won’t live any life at all.
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
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