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“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.”

James A. Baldwin · Love

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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.

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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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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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The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever.

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