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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.
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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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There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
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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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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 is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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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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The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
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If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.
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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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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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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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