James A. Baldwin
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I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.
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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
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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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If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.