Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
JAMES BALDWINAny real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.
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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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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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People don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
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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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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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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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