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.
JAMES BALDWINWe all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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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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Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
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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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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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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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Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.
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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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If you cannot love me, I will die. Before you came I wanted to die, I have told you many times. It is cruel to have made me want to live only to make my death more bloody
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Perhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.
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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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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also so much more than that. So are we all.
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