If you cannot love me, I will die. Before you came I wanted to die, I have told you many times. It is cruel to have made me want to live only to make my death more bloody
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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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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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 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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Those kids aren’t dumb. But the people who run these schools want to make sure they don’t get smart: they are really teaching the kids to be slaves.
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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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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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Perhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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Please 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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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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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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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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