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.
JAMES BALDWINChildren have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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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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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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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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The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.
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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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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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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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People don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
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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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