People can cry much easier than they can change.
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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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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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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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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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.
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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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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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It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
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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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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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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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