You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
JAMES BALDWINI am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also so much more than that. So are we all.
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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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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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The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity.
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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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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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The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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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’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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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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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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Perhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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