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To misunderstand the nature and threat of evil is to risk being blindsided by it.

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I was born black and female.

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. . . Negroes must concern themselves with every single means of struggle: legal, illegal, passive, active, violent and non- violent. . . . They must harass, debate, petition, boycott, sing hymns, pray on steps--and shoot from their windows when the racists come cruising through their communities. . . . The acceptance of our condition is the only form of extremism which discredits us before our children [ellipses in source].

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The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.

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Though it be a thrilling and marvellous thing to be merely young and gifted in such times, it is doubly so - doubly dynamic - to be young, gifted and black.

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One cannot live with sighted eyes and feeling heart and not know and read of the miseries which affect the world.

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