There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
JAMES BALDWINChildren have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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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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I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
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You write in order to change the world, if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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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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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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I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also so much more than that. So are we all.
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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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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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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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