The male cannot bear very much humiliation; and he really cannot bear it, it obliterates him.
JAMES A. BALDWINFor these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for whatthey become.
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A man’s balance depends on the weight he carries between his legs.
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You write in order to change the world.
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I think Americans are terrified of feeling anything. I never met a people more infantile in my life.
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It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.
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If the word ‘integration’ means anything, this is what it means that we, with love, shall force our brothers to see themselves as they are, to cease fleeing from reality and begin to change it.
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Remember, to hate, to be violent, is demeaning. It means you’re afraid of the other side of the coin — to love and be loved.
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Be careful what you set your heart upon – for it will surely be yours.
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At bottom, to be colored means that one has been caught in some utterly unbelievable cosmic joke, a joke so hideous and in such bad taste that it defeats all categories and definitions.
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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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At four o’clock in the morning, when everyone is drunk enough, then extraordinary things can happen.
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.
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If you think too far ahead, if you even try to think too far ahead, you’ll never make it.
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The wretched of the earth do not decide to become extinct, they resolve, on the contrary, to multiply: life is their weapon against life, life is all that they have.
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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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