The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
JAMES BALDWINPeople can’t, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents.
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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way a person looks at reality, then you can change it.
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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 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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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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The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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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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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.
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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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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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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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