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James A. Baldwin

"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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"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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"If there were no women then men would still be living in the jungle."

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"Teaching the myth of creation to the students instead of teaching them the fact of evolution is nothing but an act of ultimate ignorance!"

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"We must stop expecting the government to play the role of national transformation why we sit down and watch."

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"This was my first time in Govan. You could smell and taste the thick smog in the air. The Blue Triangle was a new high-tech building, and it didn't look right standing there in front of older and more historical buildings. The Blue Triangle may have looked great from the outside, but once inside, to my horror, it was full of young teenage boys and girls full of deep and dark depression."

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"Why does the rest of the world put up with the hypocrisy, the need to put a happy face on sorrow, the need to keep on keeping on?... I don't know the answer, I know only that I can't."

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"If you think of your own mother to be the only true mother in the world and thereby start belittling people from other mothers as bastards, that makes you a bigot and a germ on the face of earth. This is an unhealthy bias, even though in your personal mental universe it may provide you extreme comfort. This is exactly what we see in the religious fundamentalists."

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"Genius tries to conquer the world with art, with songs, with words; stupid tries to conquer it with sword, with guns, with arrows!"

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"To create an enlightened society, be a beacon of light"

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"In a patriarchal society, one of the most important functions of the institution of the family is to make feel like a somebody whenever he is in his own yard a man who is a nobody whenever he is in his employer's yard."

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"As a legacy, most world leaders leave huge amounts of money to their children and only few leave an honourable surname!"

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"The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose."
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"When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living."
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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."
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"Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did."
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"Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law."
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"The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others."
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"To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time."
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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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