No man is a devil in his own mind.
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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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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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 victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.
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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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It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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Those kids aren’t dumb. But the people who run these schools want to make sure they don’t get smart: they are really teaching the kids to be slaves.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it.
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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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