Artists are here to disturb the peace.
JAMES BALDWINNeither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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You write in order to change the world, if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.
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American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread.
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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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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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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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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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People don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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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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There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.
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Perhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.
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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.
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The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way a person looks at reality, then you can change it.
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If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.
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Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
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Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
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It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.
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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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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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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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