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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.
Fires can’t be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.
There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment the time is always now.
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war love is a growing up.
Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.
To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.
No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.
The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.