People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
JAMES BALDWINTrust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
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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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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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If a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe.
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The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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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 is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.
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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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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.
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You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don’t live the only life you have, you won’t live some other life, you won’t live any life at all.
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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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