People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
JAMES BALDWINThe artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
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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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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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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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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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There are people in the world for whom “coming along” is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.
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Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.
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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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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.
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If a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe.
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The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
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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 world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way a person looks at reality, then you can change it.
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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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