Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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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Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.
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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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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.
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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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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’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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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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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also so much more than that. So are we all.
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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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