You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
JAMES BALDWINArtists are here to disturb the peace.
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing 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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You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason.
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The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way a person looks at reality, then you can change it.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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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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Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.
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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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