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.
JAMES BALDWINPeople who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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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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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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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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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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Any 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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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in 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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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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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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Perhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.
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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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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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