Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
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There are people in the world for whom “coming along” is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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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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It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.
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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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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
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There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.
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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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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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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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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread.
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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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