People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception.
JAMES BALDWINIt is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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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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Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have.
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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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Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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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 place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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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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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
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