I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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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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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If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
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Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.
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If 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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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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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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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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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don’t live the only life you have, you won’t live some other life, you won’t live any life at all.
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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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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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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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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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The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
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