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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

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.

I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.

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.

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.

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.

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.

American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.

The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.

Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.

Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.

There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.

The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.

To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.

Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black.

The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others.

To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.

The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.

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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