When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
JAMES BALDWINAnyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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I 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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People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception.
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You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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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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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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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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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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