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.
JAMES BALDWINThose who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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Perhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.
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Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
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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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Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
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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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Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.
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Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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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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You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason.
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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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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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Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.
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The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.
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Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it.
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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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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