If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
JAMES BALDWINIt is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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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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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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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.
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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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The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.
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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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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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For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
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I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also so much more than that. So are we all.
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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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