Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
JAMES BALDWINIf you cannot love me, I will die. Before you came I wanted to die, I have told you many times. It is cruel to have made me want to live only to make my death more bloody
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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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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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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.
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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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The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.
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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
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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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There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
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