Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.
JAMES BALDWINThose who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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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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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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To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread.
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American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
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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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Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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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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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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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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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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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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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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