If you cannot love me, I will die. Before you came I wanted to die, I have told you many times. It is cruel to have made me want to live only to make my death more bloody
JAMES BALDWINAll art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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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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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
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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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The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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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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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.
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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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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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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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