Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
JAMES BALDWINNo man is a devil in his own mind.
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The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
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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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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
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People don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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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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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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Those kids aren’t dumb. But the people who run these schools want to make sure they don’t get smart: they are really teaching the kids to be slaves.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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