You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don’t live the only life you have, you won’t live some other life, you won’t live any life at all.
JAMES BALDWINPrecisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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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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Freedom 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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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.
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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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It is easy to proclaim all souls equal in the sight of God; it is hard to make men equal on earth in the sight of men.
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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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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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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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Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
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The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.
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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.
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