Artists are here to disturb the peace.
JAMES BALDWINWhen you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it.
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I 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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It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.
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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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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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Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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