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Employment is my right my destiny.

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An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.
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I don't know, now, when I first looked at Hella and found her stale, found her body uninteresting, her presence grating. It seemed to happen all at once—I suppose that only means that it had been happening for a long time.
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Our dehumanization of the Negro then is indivisible from our dehumanization of ourselves the loss of our own identity is the price we pay for our annulment of his.
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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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When human rights are abused on a grand scale, the broth of purity boils and feeds the rebellion of a new order.
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People who remember court madness through pain, the pain of the perpetually recurring death of their innocence people who forget court another kind of madness, the madness of the denial of pain and the hatred of innocence and the world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen forget.
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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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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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The challenge is in the moment the time is always now.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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The white man discovered the Cross by way of the Bible, but the black man discovered the Bible by way of the Cross.
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The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.
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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 seem untimely.
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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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What passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one's heroic ancestors. It's astounding to me, for example, that so many people really seem to believe that the country was founded by a band of heroes who wanted to be free.
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People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
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After my best friend jumped off the bridge, I knew that I was next. So-Paris. With forty dollars and a one-way ticket.
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All of us know, whether or not we are able to admit it, that mirrors can only lie, that death by drowning is all that awaits one there. It is for this reason that love is so desperately sought and so cunningly avoided. Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
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Art has to be a kind of confession. I don't mean a true confession in the sense of that dreary magazine. The effort it seems to me, is: if you can examine and face your life, you can discover the terms with which you are connected to other lives, and they can discover them, too - the terms with which they are connected to other people.
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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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