Artists are here to disturb the peace.
JAMES BALDWINI can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity.
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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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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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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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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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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
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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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People don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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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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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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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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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.
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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.
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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.
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