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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.

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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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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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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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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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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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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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