No man is a devil in his own mind.
JAMES BALDWINNeither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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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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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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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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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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No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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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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If you cannot love me, I will die. Before you came I wanted to die, I have told you many times. It is cruel to have made me want to live only to make my death more bloody
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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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.
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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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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 certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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