Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
JAMES BALDWINThe 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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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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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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American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
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Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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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 are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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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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Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have.
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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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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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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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