Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
JAMES BALDWINHatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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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’t, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents.
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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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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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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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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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Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.
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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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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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