Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.
JAMES BALDWIN
Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.
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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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Perhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.
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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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People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception.
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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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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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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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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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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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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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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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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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