People don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
JAMES BALDWINNo man is a devil in his own mind.
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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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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History is not a procession of illustrious people. It’s about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about.
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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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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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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
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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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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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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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