Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
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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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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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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To 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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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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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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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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I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also so much more than that. So are we all.
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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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Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.
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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.
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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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For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
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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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If a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe.
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There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
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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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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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