Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
JAMES BALDWINYou 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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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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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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The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.
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Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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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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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.
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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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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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The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
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