Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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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People don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
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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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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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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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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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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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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
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The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
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People can’t, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents.
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I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also so much more than that. So are we all.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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