American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
JAMES BALDWIN
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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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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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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The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception.
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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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No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.
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History is not a procession of illustrious people. It’s about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about.
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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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