People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
JAMES BALDWINThe artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
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Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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You 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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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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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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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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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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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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Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.
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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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Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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