The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
JAMES BALDWINThere are people in the world for whom “coming along” is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.
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To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread.
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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.
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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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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
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Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it.
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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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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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People don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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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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People can’t, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents.
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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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