Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
JAMES BALDWINFreedom 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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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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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.
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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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American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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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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If you cannot love me, I will die. Before you came I wanted to die, I have told you many times. It is cruel to have made me want to live only to make my death more bloody
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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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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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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it.
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