Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
JAMES BALDWINConfusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.
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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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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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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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You write in order to change the world, if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.
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It is easy to proclaim all souls equal in the sight of God; it is hard to make men equal on earth in the sight of men.
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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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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Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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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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The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way a person looks at reality, then you can change it.
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