Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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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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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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Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.
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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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For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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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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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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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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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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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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Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.
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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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