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.
JAMES BALDWINEducation is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
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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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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.
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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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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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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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Perhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.
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Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
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The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.
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No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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