Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
JAMES BALDWINThe world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way a person looks at reality, then you can change 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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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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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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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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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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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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It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.
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Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.
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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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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception.
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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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