No man is a devil in his own mind.
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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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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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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It is easy to proclaim all souls equal in the sight of God; it is hard to make men equal on earth in the sight of men.
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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.
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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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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.
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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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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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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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There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.
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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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Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.
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