Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
JAMES BALDWINChildren have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.
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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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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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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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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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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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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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The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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