Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.
JAMES BALDWINTrue rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one’s life.
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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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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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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have.
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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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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one’s life.
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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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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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