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.
JAMES BALDWINNakedness 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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Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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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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For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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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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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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People can’t, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.
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True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one’s life.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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