“Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.”
―
“If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to
make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it
is time we got rid of Him.”
― The Fire Next Time
― The Fire Next Time
“It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.”
―
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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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“Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.”
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“The poet or the revolutionary is there to articulate the necessity, but
until the people themselves apprehend it, nothing can happen ...
Perhaps it can't be done without the poet, but it certainly can't be
done without the people. The poet and the people get on generally very
badly, and yet they need each other. The poet knows it sooner than the
people do. The people usually know it after the poet is dead; but that's
all right. The point is to get your work done, and your work is to
change the world.”
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“The impossible is the least that one can demand.”
― The Fire Next Time: Mcdougal Littell Literature Connections
― The Fire Next Time: Mcdougal Littell Literature Connections
“No man is a devil in his own mind.”
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“Those kids aren't dumb. But the people who run these schools want
to make sure they don't get smart: they are really teaching the kids to
be slaves.”
― If Beale Street Could Talk
― If Beale Street Could Talk
“It comes as a great shock…to discover that the flag to which you
have pledged allegiance…has not pledged allegiance to you. It comes as a
great shock to see Gary Cooper killing off the Indians, and although
you are rooting for Gary Cooper, that the Indians are you.”
―
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“Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black.”
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“American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and
more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.”
―
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“History is not a procession of illustrious people. It's about
what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history
is about.”
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“I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also so much more than that. So are we all.”
―
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“For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.”
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“Artists are here to disturb the peace.”
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“Don’t let it make you bitter. Try to understand. Try to
understand. The world’s already bitter enough, we got to try to be
better than the world.”
― Another Country
― Another Country
“I imagine that one of the reasons people cling to their hates so
stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, that they will be
forced to deal with pain.”
― Notes of a Native Son
― Notes of a Native Son
―
“The longer I live, the more deeply I learn that love — whether we
call it friendship or family or romance — is the work of mirroring and
magnifying each other's light.”
― Nothing Personal
― Nothing Personal
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