Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.
JAMES BALDWINAnyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one’s life.
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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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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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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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Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
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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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Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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People 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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If a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe.
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