For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
JAMES BALDWINChildren have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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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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People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception.
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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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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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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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History is not a procession of illustrious people. It’s about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about.
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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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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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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
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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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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
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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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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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If you cannot love me, I will die. Before you came I wanted to die, I have told you many times. It is cruel to have made me want to live only to make my death more bloody
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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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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity.
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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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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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Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.
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