Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
JAMES BALDWINIf 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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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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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear 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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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
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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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To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread.
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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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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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Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
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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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The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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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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