The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
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It is rare indeed that people give. Most people guard and keep they suppose that it is they themselves and what they identify with themselves that they are guarding and keeping, whereas what they are actually guarding and keeping is their system of reality and what they assume themselves to be.James A. Baldwin
To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.
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Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.
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It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
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Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black.
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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 making of bread.
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