The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
JAMES BALDWINYou write in order to change the world, if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.
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People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.
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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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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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People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
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People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception.
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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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The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
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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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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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You write in order to change the world, if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.
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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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