People can’t, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents.
JAMES BALDWINArtists are here to disturb the peace.
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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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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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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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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The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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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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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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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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People don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
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If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.
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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.
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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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