Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity.
JAMES BALDWINHatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
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There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.
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Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.
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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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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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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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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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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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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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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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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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