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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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Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.
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Earth Simplicity Sun Sunrise Sunset Time Tragic Turn
For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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Freedom Independence One Liner Unbearable
The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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Forget Hero Madness Man Remember World
If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.
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Concept God Love Religion Time Validity
Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.
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Colour Human Naked Sex
You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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Book Pain Read
Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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Inspirational Interrupt Sky
You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason.
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Black Black Lives Matter Born Emotional Face Reason Sad
The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
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Cease Each Other Hold Light Moments Sea
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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Claim Earth Equality God Men Sight Soul
Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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Hatred Negativity One Liner Suicide
No man is a devil in his own mind.
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Deep Devil Human Man Mind One Liner
Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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DAngry Heart Human Imagination People Purity
Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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Country Humour Love One Liner
When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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Curosity Passion Peace Try Writing
Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.
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Afford Confusion Luxury Possible Young Youth
Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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Art Artist Disturb One Liner Peace
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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Circumstances History Myself Time
The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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Art Hide Purpose
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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Consicious Country Negro Reative Time
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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Born Cease Generation Responsible Witness
For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
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Children Inspirational Pay Profit
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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Absolute Inspirational Limitation Success
Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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Blind Fear Indifference Love One Liner Terror
True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one’s life.
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Destroy Fever Hurt Life Love Lovers Mistake Passion Rebel True
Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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Black Lives Matter Colour Human One Liner Politics Reality
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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Happen History Million Past People

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