The wretched of the earth do not decide to become extinct, they resolve, on the contrary, to multiply: life is their weapon against life, life is all that they have.
JAMES A. BALDWINBe careful what you set your heart upon – for it will surely be yours.
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The determination to outwit one’s situation means that one has no models, only object lessons.
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Life is more important than art; that’s what makes art important.
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Be careful what you set your heart upon – for it will surely be yours.
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The real victim of bigotry is the white man who hides his weakness under his myth of superiority.
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Remember, to hate, to be violent, is demeaning. It means you’re afraid of the other side of the coin — to love and be loved.
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I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.
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You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. [and then you discover that others have suffered much more than you and your problems look good in comparison]
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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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The writer’s only real task: to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art
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You want to write a sentence as clean as a bone. That is the goal.
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You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
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You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you.
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I must oppose any attempt that Negroes may make to do to others what has been done to them. . . . I know the spiritual wasteland to which that road leads . . . whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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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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