American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
JAMES BALDWINEducation 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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People don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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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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There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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Those kids aren’t dumb. But the people who run these schools want to make sure they don’t get smart: they are really teaching the kids to be slaves.
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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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I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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