There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
JAMES BALDWIN
Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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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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The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
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Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.
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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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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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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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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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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
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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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Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.
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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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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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