If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
JAMES BALDWINIt is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.
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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way a person looks at reality, then you can change it.
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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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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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The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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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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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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There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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You 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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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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