Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
JAMES BALDWINThe place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.
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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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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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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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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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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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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it.
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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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