If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.
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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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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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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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There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
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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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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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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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