Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.
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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You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
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The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
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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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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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Perhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.
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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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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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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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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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Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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