It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
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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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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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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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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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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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
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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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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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