You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason.
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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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.
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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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If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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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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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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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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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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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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If a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe.
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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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Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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