Love was a country he knew nothing about.
JAMES BALDWINIt is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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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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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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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 place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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If a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe.
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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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It is easy to proclaim all souls equal in the sight of God; it is hard to make men equal on earth in the sight of men.
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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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True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one’s life.
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Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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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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