Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
JAMES BALDWINIt is easy to proclaim all souls equal in the sight of God; it is hard to make men equal on earth in the sight of men.
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Perhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.
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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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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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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
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You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason.
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It is easy to proclaim all souls equal in the sight of God; it is hard to make men equal on earth in the sight of men.
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The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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There are people in the world for whom “coming along” is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.
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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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