We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
JAMES BALDWINNakedness 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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It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
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People can’t, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents.
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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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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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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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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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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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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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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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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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No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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