If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
JAMES BALDWINYou 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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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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Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
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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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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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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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Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.
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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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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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History is not a procession of illustrious people. It’s about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about.
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