All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
JAMES BALDWIN
If 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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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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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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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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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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You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason.
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If a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe.
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Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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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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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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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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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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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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