Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
JAMES BALDWINAll art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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It is easy to proclaim all souls equal in the sight of God; it is hard to make men equal on earth in the sight of men.
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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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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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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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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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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If a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe.
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Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
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Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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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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Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
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