You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason.
JAMES BALDWINYouth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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If a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe.
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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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Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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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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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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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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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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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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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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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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