If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
JAMES BALDWINPlease try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity.
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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
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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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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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Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.
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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
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True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one’s life.
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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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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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I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also so much more than that. So are we all.
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