Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
JAMES BALDWINThe purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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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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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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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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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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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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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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