If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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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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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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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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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It is easy to proclaim all souls equal in the sight of God; it is hard to make men equal on earth in the sight of men.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
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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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Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it.
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I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also so much more than that. So are we all.
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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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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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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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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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