All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
JAMES BALDWINLove brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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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 paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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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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Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.
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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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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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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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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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Those kids aren’t dumb. But the people who run these schools want to make sure they don’t get smart: they are really teaching the kids to be slaves.
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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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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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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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