Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
JAMES BALDWINThe place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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Love 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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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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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 world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
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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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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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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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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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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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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way a person looks at reality, then you can change it.
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