American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
JAMES BALDWINThe world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
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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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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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The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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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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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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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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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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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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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
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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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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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