Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.
JAMES BALDWINPeople don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
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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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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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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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It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
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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 most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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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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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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