You're getting to be a big boy,' I said desperately, 'it's time you started thinking about your future. … - James A. Baldwin

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For the godly poet must be chaste himself, but there is no need for his verses to be so.

James A. Baldwin

You're getting to be a big boy,' I said desperately, 'it's time you started thinking about your future. ' 'I'm thinking about my future,' said Sonny, grimly. 'I think about it all the time.

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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.

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Ask any Mexican, any Puerto Rican, any black man, any poor person - ask the wretched how they fare in the halls of justice, and then you will know, not whether or not the country is just, but whether or not it has any love for justice, or any concept of it. It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

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I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do.

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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.

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To be black and conscious in America is to be in a constant state of rage.

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