Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it.
JAMES BALDWINHatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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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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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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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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The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
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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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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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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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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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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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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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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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People don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
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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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The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
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