The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
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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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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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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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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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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It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
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The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
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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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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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