Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
JAMES BALDWINIf a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe.
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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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You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
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Those kids aren’t dumb. But the people who run these schools want to make sure they don’t get smart: they are really teaching the kids to be slaves.
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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 power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
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No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
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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 certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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