It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
JAMES BALDWINI 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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Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
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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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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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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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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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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 place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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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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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.
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The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.
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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
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