Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.
JAMES BALDWINYou have to go the way your blood beats. If you don’t live the only life you have, you won’t live some other life, you won’t live any life at all.
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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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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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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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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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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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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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It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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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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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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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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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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