The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
JAMES BALDWINIt was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
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To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread.
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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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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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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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People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.
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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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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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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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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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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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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
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Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity.
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