Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.
JAMES BALDWINTo 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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You write in order to change the world, if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.
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I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
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For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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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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American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
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People can’t, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents.
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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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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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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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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
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