Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
JAMES BALDWINAll I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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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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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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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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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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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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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
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People can’t, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents.
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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History is not a procession of illustrious people. It’s about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about.
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American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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