No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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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Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have.
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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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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.
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The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
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True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one’s life.
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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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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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Perhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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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 impossible is the least that one can demand.
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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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There are people in the world for whom “coming along” is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.
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Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
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Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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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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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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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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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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