The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.
JAMES BALDWINLove does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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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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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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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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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 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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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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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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Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
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Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
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