Everybody’s journey is individual.
JAMES BALDWINAny real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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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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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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Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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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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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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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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Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it.
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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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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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Those kids aren’t dumb. But the people who run these schools want to make sure they don’t get smart: they are really teaching the kids to be slaves.
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