If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
JAMES BALDWINThe impossible is the least that one can demand.
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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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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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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity.
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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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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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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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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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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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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
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The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way a person looks at reality, then you can change it.
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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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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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For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
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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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The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.
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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
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It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.
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People can’t, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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