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 BALDWINPeople don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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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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To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread.
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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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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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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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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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People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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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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History is not a procession of illustrious people. It’s about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about.
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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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