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.
JAMES BALDWINTo be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread.
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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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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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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
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Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
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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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Those kids aren’t dumb. But the people who run these schools want to make sure they don’t get smart: they are really teaching the kids to be slaves.
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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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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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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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