All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
JAMES BALDWINThe most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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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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No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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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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Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
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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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People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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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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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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Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it.
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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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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