Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
JAMES BALDWIN
It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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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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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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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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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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For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
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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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Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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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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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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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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