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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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The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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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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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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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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The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.
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Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
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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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There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
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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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American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
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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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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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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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Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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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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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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