The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
JAMES BALDWIN
The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.
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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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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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The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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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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Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.
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The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.
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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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It is easy to proclaim all souls equal in the sight of God; it is hard to make men equal on earth in the sight of men.
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