Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
JAMES BALDWINThe world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said 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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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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If you cannot love me, I will die. Before you came I wanted to die, I have told you many times. It is cruel to have made me want to live only to make my death more bloody
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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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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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Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.
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History is not a procession of illustrious people. It’s about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about.
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Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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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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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.
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