Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have.
JAMES BALDWINLove brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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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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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don’t live the only life you have, you won’t live some other life, you won’t live any life at all.
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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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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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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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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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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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Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.
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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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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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