Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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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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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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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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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No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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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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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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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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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.
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You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don’t live the only life you have, you won’t live some other life, you won’t live any life at all.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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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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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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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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