- Poor
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- Ignorance
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
- Pain
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
- Journey
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.
- Positive
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.
- Elders
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- Nov 07, 2020