Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
JAMES BALDWINLove brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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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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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.
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Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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People don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
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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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You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason.
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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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Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.
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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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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
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