I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
JAMES BALDWINPeople don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
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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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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.
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True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one’s life.
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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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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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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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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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You write in order to change the world, if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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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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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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