If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
JAMES BALDWINHistory 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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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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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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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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For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
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Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.
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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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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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Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
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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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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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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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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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The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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