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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.

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Everything now, we must assume, is in our hands we have no right to assume otherwise. If we do not falter in our duty now, we may be able, handful that we are, to end the racial nightmare, and achieve our country, and change the history of the world.
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There are people in the world for whom coming along is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.
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Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
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There is something terribly radical about believing that one's own experience and images are important enough to speak about, much less to write about and to perform
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The establishment of democracy on the American continent was scarcely as radical a break with the past as was the necessity, which Americans faced, of broadening this concept to include black men.
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Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
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If one really wishes to know how justice is administered in a country, one does not question the policemen, the lawyers, the judges, or the protected members of the middle class. One goes to the unprotected - those, precisely, who need the law's protection most! - and listens to their testimony.
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You want to write a sentence as clean as a bone. That is the goal.
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Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black.
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The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.
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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.
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I often wonder what I'd do if there weren't any books in the world.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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An American Negro, however deep his sympathies, or however bright his rage, ceases to be simply a black man when he faces a black man from Africa.
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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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.
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I think that the inability to love is the central problem, because that inability masks a certain terror, and that terror is the terror of being touched. And if you can't be touched, you can't be changed. And if you can't be changed, you can't be alive.
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Unless a writer is extremely old when he dies, in which case he has probably become a neglected institution, his death must always be seen as untimely. This is because a real writer is always shifting and changing and searching. The world has many labels for him, of which the most treacherous is the label of Success.
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At four o'clock in the morning, when everyone is drunk enough, then extraordinary things can happen.
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Freaks are called freaks and are treated as they are treated – in the main, abominably – because they are human beings who cause to echo, deep within us, our most profound terrors and desires.
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