You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason.
JAMES BALDWINThe purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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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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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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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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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
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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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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 place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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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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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
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Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity.
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