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.
JAMES BALDWINThe price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
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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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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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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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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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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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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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You write in order to change the world, if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.
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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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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
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