Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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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’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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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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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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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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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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Those kids aren’t dumb. But the people who run these schools want to make sure they don’t get smart: they are really teaching the kids to be slaves.
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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don’t live the only life you have, you won’t live some other life, you won’t live any life at all.
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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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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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