People don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
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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You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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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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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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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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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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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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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate 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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