Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
JAMES BALDWINI imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
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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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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
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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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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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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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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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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 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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Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
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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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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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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.
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