Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.
JAMES BALDWINThe most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
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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 price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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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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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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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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You write in order to change the world, if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.
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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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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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People don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
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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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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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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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