The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
JAMES BALDWINColour 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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Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
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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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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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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, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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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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Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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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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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 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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For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
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It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.
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People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception.
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