Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
JAMES BALDWINThe 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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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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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 art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.
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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread.
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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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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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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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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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