Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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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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It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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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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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
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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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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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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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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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