Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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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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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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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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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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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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Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.
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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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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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The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
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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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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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