True rebels, after all, are as rare as true lovers, and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one's life.
The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
Perhaps the turning point in one's life is realising that to be treated like a victim is not necessary to become one.
Whatever white people do not know about Negroes reveals, precisely and inexorably, what they do not know about themselves.
If you don't live the only life you have, you won't live some other life you won't live any life at all.
You have to go the way your blood beats.
Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
To be a Negro in this country and be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
But nothing can be changed until it is faced.
Not everything that is faced can be changed.
Ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
People can cry much easier than they can change.
I know you didn't do it, and I didn't do it either, but I am responsible for it because I am a man and a citizen of this country, and you are responsible for it for the same reason. Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
To be African American is to be African without any memory and American without any privilege.
I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do.
We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist.
People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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.
It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story to vomit the anguish up.
All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hate so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
Here are some quotations from him about oppression: The cruelty fueled his desire to write books about his encounters. James faced oppression while growing up through racism and discrimination.
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