You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don’t live the only life you have, you won’t live some other life, you won’t live any life at all.
JAMES BALDWINGenerations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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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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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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History is not a procession of illustrious people. It’s about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about.
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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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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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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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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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Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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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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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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