Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
JAMES BALDWINWe all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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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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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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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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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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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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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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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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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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The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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