The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.
JAMES BALDWINI can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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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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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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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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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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If you cannot love me, I will die. Before you came I wanted to die, I have told you many times. It is cruel to have made me want to live only to make my death more bloody
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
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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.
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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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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For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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People can’t, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents.
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