Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
JAMES BALDWINThe 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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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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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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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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Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
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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.
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
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People can’t, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents.
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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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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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