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 BALDWINNo man is a devil in his own mind.
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You 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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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.
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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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Perhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.
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It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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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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Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
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The 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 impossible is the least that one can demand.
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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
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