The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
JAMES BALDWINNobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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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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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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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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History is not a procession of illustrious people. It’s about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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There are people in the world for whom “coming along” is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.
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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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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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No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.
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