The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
JAMES BALDWINThose who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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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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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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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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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 world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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You write in order to change the world, if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.
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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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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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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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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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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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