There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
JAMES BALDWINThere are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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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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If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
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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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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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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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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.
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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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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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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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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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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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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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