You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don’t live the only life you have, you won’t live some other life, you won’t live any life at all.
JAMES BALDWIN
Any 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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The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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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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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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There are people in the world for whom “coming along” is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.
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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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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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Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
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