It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
JAMES BALDWINAnyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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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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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.
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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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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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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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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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You write in order to change the world, if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look 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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If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
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