The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.
JAMES BALDWINI can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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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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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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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.
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No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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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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Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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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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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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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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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
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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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