No man is a devil in his own mind.
JAMES BALDWINTo 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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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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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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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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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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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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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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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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Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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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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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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