The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.
JAMES BALDWINEveryone 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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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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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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Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
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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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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason.
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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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