I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
JAMES BALDWIN
All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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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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To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason.
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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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The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
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The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
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The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
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