Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
JAMES BALDWINTrue 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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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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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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The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
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The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
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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 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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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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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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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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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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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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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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