Artists are here to disturb the peace.
JAMES A. BALDWINA man’s balance depends on the weight he carries between his legs.
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You write in order to change the world.
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Drive to the heart of every answer and expose the question the answer hides.
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I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.
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A man’s balance depends on the weight he carries between his legs.
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For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for whatthey become.
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If the word ‘integration’ means anything, this is what it means that we, with love, shall force our brothers to see themselves as they are, to cease fleeing from reality and begin to change it.
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To accept one’s past – one’s history – is not the same thing as drowning in it; it is learning how to use it. An invented past can never be used; it cracks and crumbles under the pressures of life like clay in a season of drought.
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The writer’s only real task: to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art
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Hatred destroys the person who hates.
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… every human being is an unprecedented miracle.
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A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.
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The purpose of education…is to create in a person the ability to look at the world for himself, to make his own decisions.
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If you think too far ahead, if you even try to think too far ahead, you’ll never make it.
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One writes out of one thing only – one’s own experience.
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It is impossible to pretend that you are not heir to, and therefore, however inadequately or unwillingly, responsible to, and for, the time and place that give you life — without becoming, at very best, a dangerously disoriented human being.
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