Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
JAMES BALDWIN
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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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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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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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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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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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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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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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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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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