People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
JAMES BALDWINHatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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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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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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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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There are people in the world for whom “coming along” is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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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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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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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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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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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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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.
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