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Quote by James Baldwin
I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbo

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. – James Baldwin

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The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love. – James Baldwin

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James Baldwin
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The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid the state of being alone. – James Baldwin

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alone
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When the book comes out it may hurt you — but in order for me to do it, it had to hurt me first. I can only tell you about yourself as much as I can face about myself. – James Baldwin

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A racially integrated community is a chronological term timed from the entrance of the first black family to the exit of the last white family. – Saul Alinsky

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I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats. – Woody Allen, on the Ku Klux Klan

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In the racial picture things will never be as they once were. History has reached a turning point, here and over the world. – Medgar Evers

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Whites must be made to realize that they are only human, not superior. Same with blacks. They must be made to realize that they are also human, not inferior. – Steve Biko

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If religion had a good purpose, then man would have created something great. But were man: we mess up everything. We mess up nature. We mess up God. We take what is given to us and make it into what we think it should be. – Ziggy Marley

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