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.
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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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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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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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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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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If a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe.
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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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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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People don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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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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Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have.
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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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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