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James A. Baldwin

"The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever."

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"The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever."

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Akiroq Brost

"If human equality is to be for ever averted - if the High, as we have called them, are to keep their places permanently - then the prevailing mental condition must be controlled insanity."

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"There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex."

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"The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet."

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"When you can flatten entire cities at a whim, a tendency towards quiet reflection and seeing-things-from-the-other-fellow's-point- of-view is seldom necessary."

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Akiroq Brost

"Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both."

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"Ursula Monkton smiled, and the lightnings wreathed and writhed about her. She was power incarnate, standing in the crackling air. She was the storm, she was the lightning, she was the adult world with all its power and all its secrets and all its foolish casual cruelty."

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Akiroq Brost

"Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see."

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"War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives."

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"Three generations before I was the one meant for the necklace. I saw him when I was three years old, so clear and strong that he could slip his warm hand in mine, he could lift me in theair, yes, lift my body, but I refused him. I turned my back on him. I told him, You go back to the hell from which you came. And I used my power to fight him."

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"There was a power outage at a department store yesterday. Twenty people were trapped on the escalators."

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"You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself."
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"Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned."
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"The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in."
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"If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons."
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"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."
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"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."
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