History is not a procession of illustrious people. It’s about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about.
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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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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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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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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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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There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
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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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People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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People can’t, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents.
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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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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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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