Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.
JAMES BALDWINThe 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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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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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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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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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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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.
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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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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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If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
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