Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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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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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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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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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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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You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason.
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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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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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Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
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American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
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Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.
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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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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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