“Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.”
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What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so deep that I wonder if every white man in this country, when he plants a tree, doesn't see Negroes hanging from its branches.
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The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.
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I'm homosexual... How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green.
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