If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
JAMES BALDWINLife is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.
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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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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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The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.
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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason.
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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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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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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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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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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 mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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