Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
JAMES BALDWINThere 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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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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You write in order to change the world, if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
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American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
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People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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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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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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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
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