You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason.
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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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
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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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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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It is easy to proclaim all souls equal in the sight of God; it is hard to make men equal on earth in the sight of men.
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Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
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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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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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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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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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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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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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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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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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