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 BALDWINIf you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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If a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe.
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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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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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Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
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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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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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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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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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It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
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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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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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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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People don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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