You have to go the way your blood beats. 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.
JAMES BALDWINThe power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.
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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
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People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception.
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People don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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There are people in the world for whom “coming along” is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
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Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have.
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